Avila-Palencia Ione, Sarmiento Olga L, Gouveia Nelson, Jáuregui Alejandra, Mascolli Maria A, Slovic Anne D, Rodríguez Daniel A
Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Front Sustain Cities. 2023 Apr 17;5:1055351. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2023.1055351.
We aimed to examine utilitarian bicycle use among adults from 18 large Latin American cities and its association with socio-economic position (education and income) between 2008 and 2018.
Data came from yearly cross-sectional surveys collected by the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). A total of 77,765 survey respondents with complete data were used to estimate multilevel logistic regression models with city as random intercept and year as random slope.
Individuals with high education and high-income levels had lower odds of using a bicycle compared with participants with lower education and income levels. These associations, however, changed over time with the odds of bicycle use increasing for all groups, especially among individuals with the highest education and income levels.
Our results confirm the broadening appeal of bicycling across socioeconomic positions in several Latin American cities and reinforce the importance of considering policies aimed at supporting and enhancing bicycle travel for all users.
我们旨在研究2008年至2018年间18个拉丁美洲大城市成年人中功利性自行车使用情况及其与社会经济地位(教育和收入)的关联。
数据来自拉丁美洲开发银行(CAF)收集的年度横断面调查。共有77765名有完整数据的调查受访者被用于估计以城市为随机截距、年份为随机斜率的多层逻辑回归模型。
与教育程度和收入水平较低的参与者相比,高学历和高收入水平的个体使用自行车的几率较低。然而,这些关联随时间变化,所有群体使用自行车的几率都在增加,尤其是在教育程度和收入水平最高的个体中。
我们的结果证实了自行车在几个拉丁美洲城市不同社会经济地位群体中的吸引力不断扩大,并强化了考虑旨在支持和促进所有用户自行车出行的政策的重要性。