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"My name is Belinda Brown and I am a local resident and also a researcher at the UCL Centre for Transport Studies. I am interested in alternative forms of car access such as car share, car hire and car clubs. To try to understand more about how these could work I am doing a survey about how transport patterns and lifestyle fit together. I am interested in everyone's experiences - drivers or non-drivers, passengers, car club members or people who hardly ever use cars. For every questionnaire filled in through the East Dulwich Forum I will donate ?3 to the local charity ALD life (please see below).

Click here to take survey

Please only fill in one questionnaire per household. If you have any questions or comments about the survey - please post them here - it will help stop this thread from sinking!


Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder usually leading to progressive neurological disability and eventually death. ALD life is a local charity raising money to provide help and support to individuals and families affected by ALD. This includes organising activities and events for affected children, funding for treatments, support to the hospices which assist affected families, funding for research as well as online advice, information and support through their website. ALD Life was set up by an East Dulwich mother who has two sons affected by the disorder. If you would like to know more please follow the link:

http://www.aldlife.org

Here are some fascinating facts coming out of the survey....

- 78% of people use public transport for family days out in London....

- 76% of people walk when talking their children to visit friends....

- Of the 92 % that have heard of car clubs, 13 % are members

- 31% of people have hired a car in the past year (that surprised me)

- 59% of people walk for 20 minutes more than three times a week (I do believe that is quite a bit higher than

average)

- People visit their local shops MUCH more frequently than their supermarket or the shops near where they work (90%

once or twice a week or more! The local traders must love us)

- 51% of people have lived here for over 10 years!

- For the great majority of people their extended family (parents, siblings parents in law etc) live over 100 miles

away...

- Good access to public transport and shops within walking distance are the most important factors influencing people

when they are choosing where to live


And that's all for now ...wait till I get to the correlations!

Quids, you're such a pissy bastard sometimes.


300 peeps would be considered enough for a national snapshot, but anything on the EDF is likely to be dominated by liberal altruists.


All s/he needs to do is highlight this in the results, s/he's not trying to change the world or write policy.

ok 30 people from the internet, ok for a crappy PR release Rosie ;-) but not representative of anything. National samples (Huges 300 - very light btw) are structured to at least replicate national demogs or the overall polulation that they represent etc. 30 is too small for quantitative analysis anyway, and to say 34% of people have hired a car in the last year on an unstructured sample of 30 is....er.......you fill it in. I'm sure there's lots of interseting stuff in there so not trying to dimiss it but you can't draw quantitaive conclusions and relate them to the general pop...or any pop on 30 random internet replies,


Being a pedant for the truth, that's all.

Not while Ben Goldacre's on the loose...


Stop picking on me - it is 1,000 - but yes, for a spurious consumer story in the Mail it's all bullshit. It's 1,000 self-selectors, so completely unrepresentative and therefore meaningless.


So people, don't believe today's story that 75% of women think their man's cheated on them when he buys flowers!

Loz Wrote:

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> 31% of people have hired a car in the past year

> (that surprised me)

>

> That's because I think you worded that question

> badly. I think you meant 'locally' or 'in the

> UK'. I sometimes hire cars when holidaying

> abroad, so I answered 'yes'


Thank you very much Loz - that is a very good point and I shall change it as soon as I get off the forum.

Chener Books Wrote:

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> > I shall change it as soon as I get off the

> forum.

>

> And discard all the responses that pre-date the

> change?

>

> John K


Not necessarily. If they hire a car frequently then it suggests it isn't just holidays. Or I could simply state that this is likely to be on holiday. Or I might do an interview to find out more. Or I could discard them if looking only at hiring cars in UK. Will cross the bridge. Not a big deal but helpful point from Loz.

Without opening a can of worms, the whole 10% of the population is gay comes from a very spurious bit of research but has become FACT fot instance> Hitte(?) reserach was a sampple of those that replied to an advert to do a survey on Sex in a Boston Newspaper or something similar. 1/10 of the population may or may not be the right figure but the 'reserach' didn't prove it.

You mean Shere Hite (my husband calls here Sheer hate?!) I guess it is difficult to get a representative sample of the population to fill in questionnaires about how they achieve orgasms (that was her research - why??).


But that is not what I am asking - just questions about car use - can someone now fill in the 50th EDF questionnaire!


???? Wrote:

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> Without opening a can of worms, the whole 10% of

> the population is gay comes from a very spurious

> bit of research but has become FACT fot instance>

> Hitte(?) reserach was a sampple of those that

> replied to an advert to do a survey on Sex in a

> Boston Newspaper or something similar. 1/10 of the

> population may or may not be the right figure but

> the 'reserach' didn't prove it.

Thanks ????. I will. Whatever I say will be heavily qualified. Basically I was going to go door knocking and do postal surveys - by doing it online I have saved time and money and the latter is being used as incentives which are all going to good causes. It is a small pilot project which I hope will lead to something more ambitious and rigorous. I am gathering a lot of interesting and valuable data - through questionnaires but also through the interviews I am doing.

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