Walking and Cycling Action Plan, Monitoring Report, 2009-2013: Update 2011

Statistics on Monitoring ‘A Walking and Cycling Action Plan for Wales 2009-2013’ include data for Wales for 2007 up to 2010. This is the second of a series of bulletins that will be released on an annual basis.  A final update for 2010 will be published during autumn 2011.

The key points from this release are:

• The first target is to increase the percentage of children who walk to school to match the UK National Average; the percentage of 5-16 year olds walking to school in Wales is currently 28 per cent.
• The target to triple the percentage of children cycling to school; data to update this indicator will be available later this year.
• The target to increase the proportion of people who walk to work to 20 per cent; the latest data shows that there has been an increase from the baseline of 10.3 per cent in 2007 to 11.3 per cent in 2010.
• The target to triple the percentage of adults whose main mode of travel to work is cycling; the latest data shows that the proportion of adults cycling to work has risen from the baseline level of 1.4 per cent to 1.6 per cent in 2010.
• The target to increase the number of people walking for recreation to 50 per cent; the latest available data shows that the proportion of adults who have done any walking (over 2 miles) in the past four weeks has fallen to 34 per cent for 2008/09 from the baseline of 40 per cent. Data to update this indicator to 2010 will be available later this year.
• The target to double the percentage of adults cycling for recreation; the latest available data shows that there has been an increase in the proportion of people who have cycled in the past four weeks from the baseline of 5 per cent to 8 per cent. Data to update this indicator to 2010 will be available later this year.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 6960
E-mail: post16ed.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

November 2011 (provisional - to be confirmed on 'Due out Soon' page)