ACT HTS - 06 Demographics of Travel (2022)

This spreadsheet replicates selected data tables from the ACT &amp; Queanbeyan Household Travel Survey dashboard.
Please refer to the attached spreadsheet on this page.

About the Travel Demographics theme
The data shown replicates the dashboard 'Method of travel' theme, with additional filters applied for demographic attributes. This includes people's gender, age, licence holding status and household income level. 

Notes: 
- The small sample size (approximately 1 per cent) of people who either did not report their gender, or who did not identify as male or female, prevented their analysis as a distinct cohort group. Responses from these participants have been randomly allocated to the male and female groups.





Household income quartiles are derived by a summation of individual income ranges. As no adjustment has been made for household size, single person households are over-represented in the lowest income quartile. The quartile ranges have been calculated separately for each survey year. 




An employment status of 'Not in workforce' is only applied to children. Retired people will be classed as 'Not employed'.



Note that the tables provided represent a small subset of data available. Only the number and proportion of trips are shown; use of the dashboard or raw survey datasets allow more complex descriptions of travel to be developed.

Source data
The data shown is not a Census of travel, but a large survey of several thousand households from across the ACT and Queanbeyan. As with any survey there will be some variability in the accuracy of the results, and how well they reflect the movement of the entire population. For instance, if the survey were to be completed on another day, or with a different subset of households, the results would be slightly different. 
Interpretations of the data should keep this variability in mind: these are estimates of the broad shape of travel only. Even for the same person, travel behaviour will vary according to many factors: day of week, month of year, season, weather, school holidays, illness, family responsibilities, work from home opportunities, etc. Again, by summarising the travel of many different people, the data provides a view of average weekday patterns.

In interpreting the data, it is worth noting the following points:
-    A zero cell does not necessarily mean the travel is never made, but rather that the survey participants did not make this travel on their particular survey day.
-    Values are rounded, and may not sum to the totals shown.
Trip time periods are assigned using the mid point of travel:
-   AM peak (8am to 9am), PM peak (5pm to 6pm), Interpeak (9am to 5pm), Off-peak (after 6pm)

The survey is described on the Transport Canberra and City Services' website:
[Household Travel Survey homepage]

Cell annotations and notes
Some cells have annotations added to them, as follows:
*    : Statistically significant difference across survey years (at the 95% confidence level). Confidence intervals indicate where the true measure would typically fall if the survey were repeated multiple times (i.e., 95 times out of 100), recognising that each survey iteration may produce slightly different outcomes.
~    : Unreliable estimate (small sample or wide confidence interval)

Additional information
Analysis by Sift Research, March 2025.
Contact research@sift.group for further information.
Enclosed data tables shared under a 'CC BY' Creative Commons licence. This enables users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
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Tags: act-household-travel-survey
Organization: ACT Government Open Data