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. 2021 Jun 1;110:71–85. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.05.028

Table 4.

Profile of the pre-pandemic latent classes compared to the survey sample.

Sample SD PTU TU PVT MDC MM
Basic personal and household characteristics Average age 43.2 45.1 43.7 39.1 40.5 39.2 37.8
Has driver's license 87.5% 97.3% 74.0% 70.6% 82.7% 73.8% 88.9%
Owns transit pass 38.6% 30.7% 38.4% 61.4% 45.5% 44.3% 55.6%
Has access to private vehicle 88.6% 99.2% 71.7% 67.9% 93.7% 70.5% 86.5%
Average number of household vehicles
1.42
1.64
1.09
0.94
1.53
1.23
1.31
Gender Male 40.1% 44.4% 35.2% 35.9% 29.6% 43.6% 31.0%
Female 59.4% 55.4% 64.2% 63.3% 69.3% 55.4% 69.0%
Non-binary/prefer not to answer
0.5%
0.2%
0.6%
0.7%
1.1%
1.1%
0.0%
Home location Toronto 42.0% 32.9% 55.4% 63.3% 37.5% 44.1% 61.0%
Peel 23.8% 27.2% 17.5% 18.9% 24.6% 21.1% 18.7%
York 20.1% 23.5% 14.8% 12.2% 22.6% 19.1% 13.1%
Durham 8.6% 9.7% 7.7% 3.6% 9.2% 12.0% 7.1%
Halton
5.4%
6.7%
4.7%
1.9%
6.2%
3.8%
0.2%
Student status Currently a student 16.6% 12.1% 14.5% 24.6% 25.5% 28.1% 27.9%
Non-student
83.4%
87.9%
85.5%
75.4%
74.5%
71.9%
72.1%
Employment status Not employed 18.1% 14.6% 27.5% 15.9% 24.5% 19.9% 18.6%
Part-time at home 3.4% 2.9% 5.1% 4.2% 1.6% 5.5% 2.7%
Part-time at workplace 10.4% 9.1% 10.5% 13.9% 12.4% 12.1% 8.8%
Part-time, home and workplace 1.0% 0.5% 1.6% 1.4% 2.1% 1.7% 2.4%
Full-time at home 6.6% 6.5% 6.7% 5.5% 8.8% 8.0% 3.3%
Full-time at workplace 52.5% 57.5% 41.8% 54.1% 41.4% 46.1% 56.6%
Full-time, home and workplace 3.2% 3.5% 3.0% 2.7% 3.3% 1.3% 5.6%
Other
4.7%
5.4%
3.8%
2.3%
5.9%
5.6%
2.1%
Household income 50,000 CAD and below 21.6% 17.9% 27.0% 25.9% 23.9% 30.4% 20.5%
50,000 CAD to 150,000 CAD 57.7% 58.9% 54.3% 58.3% 54.7% 56.9% 60.6%
150,000 CAD and above 10.6% 13.2% 8.3% 7.1% 8.4% 3.5% 10.7%
Prefer not to answer 10.1% 10.0% 10.4% 8.7% 12.9% 9.2% 8.2%

SD: Strict drivers.

PTU: Pedestrians/transit users.

TU: Transit users.

PVT: Private vehicle/transit users.

MDC: Mobility-on-demand users/cyclists.

MM: Multimodals.