Definitions matter: investigating indicators for transport poverty using different measurement tools

Verhorst, Tom; Fu, Xingxing; van Lierop, Dea

doi:10.1186/s12544-023-00596-z

European Transport Research Review

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Table 6 Assessing the predictors of different quantified definitions

From: Definitions matter: investigating indicators for transport poverty using different measurement tools

	Lucas et al. [22, 24]		Awaworyi Churchill and Smyth [2]		Allen and Farber [1]		Mobimon [10]
	Model 1.1	Model 1.2	Model 2.1	Model 2.2	Model 3.1	Model 3.2	Model 4.1	Model 4.2
Constant	0.184	0.094	0.279	0.178	0.323	0.291	0.763	0.323
Socio-economic variables
Sex
Female (reference)
Male	0.003	0.008	− 0.018	0.007	0.048^***	0.004	0.159^*	0.219^***
Employment
Retired, student or unemployed (reference)
Full time job	0.019	0.010	− 0.028	0.019	− 0.141^***	− 0.148^***	0.144	− 0.113
Part time job	− 0.006	− 0.010	− 0.002	0.000	− 0.033	− 0.072^***	0.048	− 0.075
Education
Low education (reference)
Medium education	− 0.032^*	− 0.001	− 0.026	0.019	0.014	0.025	0.055	0.154
High education	− 0.013	0.014	− 0.010	0.044	− 0.070^***	− 0.040	− 0.117	0.096
Use of mobility aids	0.063^**	0.042	0.076^*	− 0.028	0.006	− 0.131^**	0.523^***	0.369^*
Household composition
Single with children (reference)
Single without children	− 0.026	0.002	− 0.051^*	− 0.046			− 0.305^*	− 0.277^*
Couple without children	− 0.031^*	− 0.008	− 0.047	− 0.054^*			− 0.354^*	− 0.332^**
Couple with children	− 0.005	0.011	− 0.018	− 0.046			− 0.354^*	− 0.350^*
Other household	− 0.023	− 0.013	− 0.055^*	− 0.045			− 0.151	− 0.314^*
Household income
Low income (reference)
Medium income	− 0.019	− 0.024^*	− 0.050^**	− 0.037^*			− 0.286^***	− 0.142
High income	− 0.062^***	− 0.033^*	− 0.103^***	− 0.056^*			− 0.716^***	− 0.222
Primary language at home: Dutch	− 0.067^***	− 0.014	− 0.095^***	− 0.060^*	− 0.067^***	− 0.053	− 0.461^***	− 0.271^*
City of residence
Rotterdam (reference)
Utrecht	0.012	− 0.016	− 0.009	− 0.028^*	0.026^*	0.046^**	− 0.067	− 0.108
Transport-related variables
Ease of driving		− 0.013^***		− 0.009		− 0.006		− 0.195^***
Perception of Public transport		− 0.019^***		− 0.018^**		− 0.021^**		− 0.374^***
Access to amenities		− 0.034^***		− 0.047^***		− 0.018^*		− 0.405^***
Adjusted R Square	0.091	0.197	0.064	0.114	0.136	0.150	0.140	0.448

*, ** and *** denote significance at a significance level of 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001 respectively

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