To provide up-to-date information on cycling use and attitudes towards cycling in Scotland, the Scottish Executive commissioned a survey of a representative sample of adults in 2005. This survey updates and provides comparisons with information contained in earlier surveys of cycling conducted in 1997 and 2001. As in the previous surveys, a series of questions were inserted on the Scottish Opinion Survey (SOS), the monthly consumer omnibus survey operated by TNS. The questions were inserted in the April and August waves of the survey, as was the case in previous years, so that responses were directly comparable. All interviews were conducted in-home. Across the 2 survey waves in 2005, a total of 2,067 adult respondents were included within the sample. From this sample of respondents, a total of 697 adult cyclists and 827 child cyclists were identified in households – including respondents and other adult and child members of the respondents’ households. Some information on these other cyclists within the household was collected as part of the interview with the respondents, irrespective of whether or not he or she was a cyclist. (Author/publisher)
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