Table 4.

Environmental, social and individual variables associated with girls cycling to/from school ≥ 1 trip/week in logistic regression models.

	Model 1 (Objective environment)		Model 2 (Model 1 + perceptions of environment)		Model 3 (Model 2 + social factors)		Model 4 (Model 3 + individual factors)
Variables	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Neighborhood is safe enough for children to cycle to school with friends‡a			2.21	1.16-4.24**	1.72	0.89-3.32	1.73	0.89-3.38
My child would have to cross a busy road‡b			0.32	0.19-0.56***	0.37	0.23-0.61***	0.44	0.25-0.76**
I would have to cross a busy roada			0.42	0.23-0.78**	0.55	0.30-1.01	0.59	0.30-1.15
Driving child to school is more convenient‡b					0.44	0.23-0.83**	0.40	0.20-0.82**
Perceives child's preference is to cycle‡c					10.18	5.30-19.55***	7.69	3.77-15.66***
Confident in child's ability to cycle without adult‡a					3.63	1.93-6.82***	4.03	2.02-8.05***
Adult home after school on most daysc							0.41	0.20-0.83**
Cycling is child's preferencec							3.73	2.26-6.17***
Confident in ability to cycle to school without adulta							2.13	1.29-3.52**

OR = odds ratio, CI = confidence interval, *p ≤ 0.05 **p ≤ 0.01 ***p ≤ 0.001,^‡Parent perception

Reference categories: ^aStrongly disagree/disagree/neither, ^bDisagree/not applicable, ^cYes vs. No

All models have been adjusted for school clustering, school grade and maternal education