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

Table 6.

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

Sample SD PD PV SMC TP NT
Basic personal and household characteristics Average age 43.2 44.6 42.6 40.1 37.7 42.8 48.9
Has driver's license 87.5% 97.1% 80.3% 83.8% 71.8% 53.0% 75.6%
Owns transit pass 38.6% 32.7% 38.2% 45.8% 58.6% 60.8% 24.4%
Has access to private vehicle 88.6% 99.7% 79.0% 93.1% 67.1% 40.4% 77.8%
Average number of household vehicles
1.42
1.63
1.17
1.58
1.06
0.57
1.22
Gender Male 40.1% 43.8% 37.8% 24.7% 44.9% 38.3% 26.7%
Female 59.4% 56.0% 61.9% 74.2% 54.7% 59.8% 71.1%
Non-binary/prefer not to answer
0.5%
0.2%
0.3%
1.1%
0.4%
1.9%
2.2%
Home location Toronto 42.0% 34.1% 55.1% 39.7% 49.4% 64.7% 55.6%
Peel 23.8% 27.1% 16.9% 23.0% 25.3% 17.0% 15.6%
York 20.1% 23.4% 15.3% 23.9% 15.1% 8.8% 11.1%
Durham 8.6% 8.8% 7.5% 9.5% 8.0% 6.8% 15.6%
Halton
5.4%
6.7%
5.2%
4.0%
2.3%
2.7%
2.2%
Student status Currently a student 16.6% 13.4% 14.6% 26.9% 30.1% 16.4% 13.3%
Non-student
83.4%
86.6%
85.4%
73.2%
69.9%
83.6%
86.7%
Employment status Not employed 26.2% 21.1% 34.0% 34.8% 20.4% 34.3% 46.7%
Part-time at home 5.7% 4.5% 9.1% 4.6% 9.7% 2.8% 4.4%
Part-time at workplace 6.1% 7.1% 3.4% 4.8% 8.0% 7.2% 2.2%
Part-time, home and workplace 0.7% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6% 0.9% 1.1% 0.0%
Full-time at home 24.5% 26.9% 24.0% 22.7% 20.4% 15.6% 20.0%
Full-time at workplace 26.5% 29.5% 18.8% 18.7% 31.9% 32.7% 17.8%
Full-time, home and workplace 5.4% 5.5% 5.8% 6.2% 5.9% 2.8% 2.2%
Other
4.8%
4.8%
4.3%
7.5%
2.9%
3.6%
6.7%
Household income 50,000 CAD and below 21.6% 18.1% 22.5% 21.4% 26.0% 44.6% 26.7%
50,000 CAD to 150,000 CAD 57.7% 60.0% 57.6% 55.5% 56.0% 46.5% 48.9%
150,000 CAD and above 10.6% 12.4% 8.7% 10.7% 11.0% 3.5% 0.0%
Prefer not to answer 10.1% 9.5% 11.3% 12.4% 7.0% 5.4% 24.4%

SD: Strict drivers.

PD: Pedestrians/drivers.

PV: Private vehicle users.

SMC: Shared mode users/cyclists.

TP: Transit users/pedestrians.

NT: Non-travellers.