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Does anyone know of the Scottish equivalent to this
Worth asking your local MSP if they know the car ownership in their constituency, and whether they will appropriately allocate their parliamentary effort to serve the need to households without cars - around here that's around 65% Sandra White SNP Tak tent
This was hiding in spam.
If Insto was about he might say something like "The Scottish Household Survey".
No direct equivalent of the map you linked to Tulyar, AFAIK.
Scottish Census data maps here:
http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ods-web/data-visualisations.html
Scottish Household Survey stuff here:
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/16002
Edinburgh City results for 2014 here:
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0048/00486844.pdf
On p.76 it says 43% of Edinburgh residents have no access to a car, up from 40% in 2013. Highest % for 15 years, and well above the Scottish average of 31%.
Rather infuriatingly, the city report only mentions access to cars, possession of a driving licence, and notes the correlation between relative poverty and lack of access to a car, and the link between gender and driving licenses (men more likely to have one). Can't find any mention of public transport; walking and cycling are only mentioned in the context of sport and exercise!
This rather demonstrates the mindset of those who set the parameters for what will be measured in statistics, does it not? Car = prosperity; cycling/walking = sport and exercise.
Sigh.
A quick scan failed to find the exact question about "access to car" - I think Boyfriend of fimm and I officially come into this category, because we choose not to own a car but use the city car club and hire cars when we want to. Yes, we do it because it makes financial sense to us, but we're hardly poor...
Seems I was wrong: there is a map/visualisation covering Scottish access to/ownership of a car:
Rather fascinating...
Interesting map here
(hope that works)
Linked from this: "A new map-and-data merge vividly demonstrates that many urban areas in England and Wales have electoral wards where the majority of people don’t own cars. Some wards in London, Newcastle and other cities have car-ownership of less than 30 percent yet local and national governments continue to plough money mainly into facilities for motorists."
(The map I have linked to is for Scotland.)
Thanks to the CEOGB blog round up for the link.
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