This paper reports on a survey of 30 primary schools in a variety of socio-economic neighbourhoods in Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Three indicators were collected and analyzed and a prediction was made that a higher number of walking school children is likely to be found in neighbourhoods with fewer automobiles at home, families with low-income types of occupations and higher numbers of siblings. This study found that there were strong relationships between number of walking school children and these three socio-economic indicators in different neighbourhoods. This finding supports previous results showing that the number of child pedestrians are likely to be higher in the low socio-economic neighbourhoods. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. E216410.
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