Equity impacts of cycling investment in England: A natural experimental study using longitudinally linked individual-level Census data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cycling is beneficial for health and the environment but the evidence on the overall and differential impacts of interventions to promote cycling is limited. Here we assess the equity impacts of funding awarded to support cycling in 18 urban areas between 2005 and 2011.

Methods

We used longitudinally linked 2001 and 2011 census data from 25,747 individuals in the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study of England and Wales. Logistic regression was used to assess the impacts of funding on commute mode as the interaction between time and area (intervention/comparison) in individual-level difference-in-difference analyses, adjusting for a range of potential confounding factors. Differential impacts were examined by age, gender, education and area-level depr

SUBMITTER: Patterson R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10251149 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature