Table 1 Socio-demographic and climatic data for the four cities (territorial authorities)
From: Increasing active travel: aims, methods and baseline measures of a quasi-experimental study
Intervention cities | Control cities | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Plymouth | Hastings | Whanganui | Masterton | NZ | |
Estimated resident pop. | 71,100 | 73,200 | 43,800 | 23,200 | 4,184,600 |
Pop. in 10–19 age-group (%) | 15.0 | 16.2 | 15.6 | 15.6 | 14.9 |
Median age | 38.7 | 36.6 | 39.7 | 40.4 | 35.9 |
Māori pop. | 10,300 | 17,800 | 9,800 | 4,000 | 624,300 |
Māori % of pop. | 14.5 | 24.3 | 22.4 | 17.2 | 14.9 |
Median income, people 15 & over | 22,800 | 22,600 | 19,800 | 21,700 | 24,400 |
Mean air temp. August/Feb, °C | 10.3/18.0 | 10.3/19.4* | 10.2 /18.5 | 8.4/17.7 | |
Mean annual rainfall (mm) | 1386 | 785* | 918 | 928 | |