Table 1.
Sociodemographic distribution estimatesa of the adult population in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area (SPMA). Household Travel Survey (n = 56261), August to November 2007 and February to April 2008.
| Sociodemographic characteristics | SPMA 2007 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| % | CI (95%) | ||
| Sex | |||
| Male | 47.0 | 46.6 | 47.4 |
| Female | 53.0 | 52.5 | 53.5 |
| Age (years) | |||
| 18–24 | 19.5 | 19.0 | 20.1 |
| 25–34 | 27.0 | 26.2 | 27.7 |
| 35–44 | 23.2 | 22.5 | 23.8 |
| 45–54 | 21.7 | 21.1 | 22.3 |
| 55–59 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 9.1 |
| School grade | |||
| No schooling or incomplete elementary schooling | 8.8 | 7.7 | 9.8 |
| Elementary schooling/ | 16.8 | 15.9 | 17.6 |
| Middle schooling | 18.5 | 17.8 | 19.2 |
| High schooling | 42.4 | 41.3 | 43.5 |
| Graduate schooling | 13.6 | 12.2 | 14.9 |
| Car at home | |||
| None | 44.7 | 42.9 | 46.5 |
| One | 40.5 | 39.2 | 41.8 |
| Two or more | 14.8 | 13.5 | 16.1 |
| Motorcycle at home | |||
| None | 90.4 | 89.6 | 91.2 |
| One | 9.0 | 8.2 | 9.7 |
| Two or more | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.8 |
| Bicycle at home | |||
| None | 62.0 | 60.7 | 63.3 |
| One | 27.0 | 25.9 | 28.1 |
| Two or more | 11.0 | 10.2 | 11.8 |
a
Estimates based on sampling weighting factors.