Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Scottish Household Survey, 2015

Variable Details

Variablecongaml_other
LabelDone anything to reduce impact of congestion - other open-end
Question text THINKING MORE GENERALLY ABOUT JOURNEYS LIKE THE {SUB1} YOU MADE YESTERDAY, HAVE YOU DONE ANYTHING TO REDUCE THE IMPACT THAT DELAYS DUE TO CONGESTION MIGHT HAVE ON {SUB2}?
Responses
Avoid shopping during busy hours, or take other routes. 6
Avoid times when it will be congested 4
Avooid busy times. 4
Cancelling trips because of problems with ferries 2
Choose Travel times appropratly to avoid 2
Different routes 6
Drive outwith rush hours 2
Get on the bus when it will not be busy. 11
I adjust my work patterns. 4
I could go a different way. 4
I've left at different times/ 2
LEAVE EARLY TO GO TO WORK 4
Left earlier/Changed route 2
Left when roads were less busy /Did all trips at same time 3
NB respondent gets the bus provided by the care centre but had to put ordinary bus serviced as there is no category provided for mode of transport taken 2
Take a different route 4
Travel outwith congestion hours 4
Use side roads and take short cuts 5
avoid busy periods when congested/n// 2
avoid congestion times/n// 2
avoid haudigan roundabout 2
avoid peak 2
avoid peak busy periods 4
avoid peak school times 7
avoid peak time travel periods 6
avoid peak times 16
avoid peak times for travelling. 6
avoid peak times/n// 2
avoid peak travel times 11
avoid periods of peak tr4avel congestion and use the bus into town 6
avoid rush hour/n// 3
avoid rush hours 4
avoid school 4
avoid schools 3
avoid times when I know the ferry arrives, to not get stuck behind a stream of traffic 2
avoided busy periods 3
avoided peak travel times 3
avoiding travelling at rush hour 4
cancel journey 6
ch0se the less congested path/n// 2
change route 12
change times of shopping trips 10
changed from bus to train 8
check traffic scotland 4
choose a less busy time 2
choosse to avoid rush hour 3
chose a different route to avoid the congestion 4
cycle mainly to work 5
don't acept hospital appointment times in early morning because of traffic congestion 2
drive off peak hours 4
encountered unexpected road works 2
go a different way/n// 2
go to work earlier 2
i avoid travelling peak hours 2
like walk 2
listen to traffic info. 4
lomng drive to birmingham 3
only undertake local journeys 2
outwith peak tine travel 2
reeduced car journeys by picking peopkle up and dropping off 5
sometimes change route 5
sometimes walk no traffic congestion 2
start work earlier to avoid traffic 2
take taxis 4
taken a different 2
tend not todrive at peak time 10
there were 3 further trips later in the day with clients - running and walking, script did not seem to allow further trips to be entered 9
think about the route,/ depending on where i'm going/ 3
took different route 2
took longer to come home as driver didnt know shortcuts and different driver took me to hospital 2
travel at off peak times 5
travel off peak 5
travel outwith peak time travel 3
travel with family to any appointments 2
tried various routes/n// 2
try and avoid peak periods 2
try to go on less congested times 5
use alternative route 4
use different routes 5
use taxi to rail station due to problems parking there 4
used alternative routes 2
used my motorbike 5
used smaller car and motor bike. Walk some short journeys 3
used taxi as unfit to drive own car 2
using known short-cuts 3
walk 7
walk if weather better 4
walk in good weather 4
walk instead 7
walk more 4
walk of nearby 6
walk quite a lot 5
walk small journeys 4
walk to avoid traffic when i can 2
walk to school and sometimes back 2
walk to work unless like yesterday going to another shop 2
walk where possible 2
walked 8
walked for a short journey 4
walking 7
work from home 4
wouldn't go at rushhour/ 4
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationScottish Household Survey, 2015
Interviewer InstructionsScript note: this is only asked once per respondent as appropriate, after all other questions have been asked in the travel diary
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Households and individual adults within households in Scotland.
SamplingOne-stage stratified or systematic random sample
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study