Journal Articles
Does neighbourhood count in affecting children's journeys to schools?
- Does neighbourhood count in affecting children's journeys to schools?
- Children's Geographies, 13(1), 89-113, 2015
- Routledge
- 2015
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Primary Education
- This study examines two factors affecting children's school journeys – independent mobility and accessible school opportunities. Two time-geography based indicators, the spatial extent of potential path area and the number of weighted school places reachable (labelled OPP), are estimated. Multi-level modelling has been developed to analyse the interplay of individual, household and neighbourhood factors. Hong Kong is used as a case study because the neighbourhood effects on school provision within compact cities have not been well studied. The results show that 30.4% of the children's school journeys were made without adult companions. Half of the children walked to schools. The multi-level analysis suggests that nearly 90% of the variance in both indicators was found at the individual level. Neighbourhood, though not a decisive factor, does have impacts on the number of accessible school choices. Copyright of Children's Geographies is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.828450
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 14733285
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/7e8d71b4
- 2015-03-12
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