Insights into shopping travel behavior: latent classes in relation to attitudes towards shopping

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Table 4 Descriptive characteristics

		CL1	CL2	CL3	CL4	CL5	CL6	Total
		N = 114	N = 46	N = 79	N = 39	N = 82	N = 106	N = 466
Travel behavior
Satisfaction with shopping POIs at residential location^a	mean	4.27	4.57	4.05	4.34	4.60	4.25	4.32
Leisure trips per week	mean	3.79	4.41	5.15	4.53	5.57	3.96	4.49
Trips per day^b	mean	2.51	4.33	6.19	3.18	4.01	3.19	3.79
Kilometers per day^b	mean	18.6	17.3	55.6	24.8	24.1	29.3	28.7
Distance for purchases	mean	1.74	0.78	8.94	3.03	3.55	5.15	4.07
Selected household (HH) characteristics
Household size	mean	1.86	2.78	2.99	3.46	2.12	2.12	2.38
Number of children in HH	mean	0.28	1.04	0.95	1.08	0.30	0.28	0.54
Net-income class^c	mean	1.94	2.17	2.58	2.46	1.76	2.38	2.18
Number of cars in HH	mean	0.71	1.09	1.35	1.28	0.38	1.24	0.97
Population density^d	mean	12,247	10,493	10,658	11,365	14,489	9590	11,521
Selected socio-demograhic characteristics
Sex (male)	in %	59.7	37.0	63.3	43.6	43.9	52.8	52.4
Age class
18–35 years	in %	15.8	10.9	63.3	100.0	54.9	26.4	39.7
35–65 years	in %	79.8	73.9	36.7	0	34.2	67.0	54.3
Older than 65 years	in %	4.39	15.2	0	0	11.0	6.60	6.01
Education
O-level	in %	34.2	8.7	24.1	10.3	25.6	39.6	27.7
A-levels	in %	16.7	21.7	27.9	35.9	17.1	15.1	20.4
University degree	in %	43.0	67.4	40.5	38.5	45.1	41.5	44.6
Occupation
Employed	in %	82.5	71.7	87.3	64.1	42.7	86.8	74.7
In education	in %	7.02	4.35	2.53	35.9	22.0	3.77	10.3
Pensioner	in %	7.89	15.2	0	0	14.6	5.66	7.3
Other	in %	2.63	8.7	10.1	0	20.7	3.77	7.73

^a 5-point Likert scale from 1 = ‘does not apply’ to 5 = ‘apply’ | ^b Km and Trips per Day: calculated from the information given in the travel skeleton | ^c Net-income class (of household): 1 = up to 2,000€, 2 = 2,000-4,000€, 3 = 4,000-6,500€, 4 = more than 6,500€ | ^d inhabitants per square kilometer