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Table 1 Description of the five clusters resulting from the Hierarchical Ascendant Classification (HAC)

From: Young adolescents' independent mobility, related factors and association with transport to school. A cross-sectional study

Variables (a)

Categories

Cluster 1 (n = 361)

Cluster 2 (n = 223)

Cluster 3 (n = 186)

Cluster 4 (n = 127)

Cluster 5 (n = 111)

Total (n = 1008)

Socio-demographics

 

%

%

%

%

%

%

Gender (19.2%)

Female

32.4

40.8

95.2

61.4

45.0

50.9

 

Male

67.6

59.2

4.8

38.6

55.0

49.1

Main residence (20.0%)

Apartment

8.0

89.2

26.3

60.6

53.2

41.0

 

House

91.1

10.8

72.6

37.8

43.2

57.9

 

Other/No answer

0.8

0.0

1.1

1.6

3.6

1.1

Parent(s) born outside Sweden (14.4%)

None

79.5

49.3

77.4

33.9

55.0

64.0

 

At least one

20.5

50.2

22.6

66.1

44.1

35.8

 

No answer

0.0

0.5

0.0

0.0

0.9

0.2

Living alternately with divorced parents (4.2%)

One home

84.5

63.2

76.9

80.3

74.8

76.8

 

Two homes

15.5

36.8

23.1

19.7

25.2

23.2

Factors affecting mobility

       

Parked cars in the area (49.6%)

1 (many)

1.4

46.6

7.5

22.8

10.8

16.3

 

2

8.9

17.5

15.1

20.5

6.3

13.1

 

3

17.5

18.4

18.8

24.4

10.8

18.1

 

4

37.4

12.1

30.7

15.7

5.4

24.3

 

5 (no parked cars)

34.9

5.4

23.7

7.9

8.1

19.9

 

Don't know/no answer

0.0

0.0

4.3

8.7

58.6

8.3

Traffic speed in the living area (42.4%)

1 + 2 (rapid)

12.7

23.8

18.3

33.1

5.4

18.0

 

3 (neither rapid nor slow)

25.2

36.8

37.1

29.9

10.8

29.0

 

4 + 5 (slow traffic)

62.1

39.5

43.6

34.7

17.1

45.2

 

Don't know/no answer

0.0

0.0

1.1

2.4

66.7

7.8

Sometimes feels scared or insecure in the neighbourhood, because of:

       

Darkness (13.9%)

Yes

7.5

7.2

54.8

50.4

15.3

22.4

 

No

92.5

92.8

45.2

49.6

84.7

77.6

Adolescents (13.7%)

Yes

6.9

11.7

23.1

78.0

10.8

20.3

 

No

93.1

88.3

76.9

22.1

89.2

79.7

Adults (11.3%)

Yes

8.3

18.8

24.2

63.0

11.7

20.8

 

No

91.7

81.2

75.8

37.0

88.3

79.2

Traffic (11.2%)

Yes

4.7

7.2

19.9

56.7

8.1

15.0

 

No

95.3

92.8

80.1

43.3

91.9

85.0

Animals (10.7%)

Yes

3.1

7.2

2.7

33.9

9.9

8.5

 

No

97.0

92.8

97.3

66.1

90.1

91.5

Strategies to cope with insecurity in the neighbourhood

       

Ask for company (21.3%)

Yes

1.4

7.6

69.4

46.5

18.0

22.8

 

No

98.6

92.4

30.7

53.5

82.0

77.2

Ask for a lift (15.3%)

Yes

2.5

0.9

38.7

33.9

9.0

13.5

 

No

97.5

99.1

61.3

66.1

91.0

86.5

Convince oneself it is not dangerous (10.4%)

Yes

8.6

14.4

52.2

49.6

9.9

23.2

 

No

91.4

85.7

47.9

50.4

90.1

76.8

Take a different route (8.9%)

Yes

4.2

2.2

20.4

48.0

6.3

12.5

 

No

95.8

97.8

79.6

52.0

93.7

87.5

Stay at home (8.5%)

Yes

1.9

1.4

2.7

39.4

3.6

6.9

 

No

98.1

98.7

97.3

60.6

96.4

93.2

Perceived child/parentb consensus on walking in the city in the evening (15.2%)

Both yes

9.7

14.8

6.5

3.2

11.7

9.6

 

Both no

22.2

16.6

36.0

36.2

18.9

24.9

 

Child yes, parent no

7.2

13.0

7.0

8.7

5.4

8.4

 

Child more conservative than parent

6.1

1.8

4.3

4.7

12.6

5.4

 

Child yes, parent maybe/no answer

10.8

14.8

5.4

9.5

14.4

10.9

 

Child maybe/no answer, parent no

23.0

17.0

25.3

13.4

16.2

20.1

 

Both maybe/no answer

21.1

22.0

15.6

24.4

20.7

20.6

Do you think that your parents trust you in traffic? (9.7%)

Yes, always

72.3

77.6

76.3

40.2

55.0

68.3

 

Yes, almost always

21.3

17.0

20.4

28.4

22.5

21.2

 

Other

6.4

5.4

3.2

31.5

22.5

10.5

  1. The categories of the variables that significantly contributed to the formation of each cluster are marked in italics.
  2. Note: numbers are rounded and may add upp to more than 100%.
  3. a Cumulated contribution to the first 3 factors within parenthesis.
  4. b Parents' opinions reported by child