Preprocessed walking episodes (2010).

This dataset contains all the walking episodes from the 2010 GSS Survey. We identified the walking episodes and selected the places of origin and destination, measuring the time spent, weight and other information about the activities.

Usage

data(walking_2010)

Format

A data frame containing 4379 rows and 17 variables; each row represents a unique episode.

PUMFID

Public Use Microdata File Identifier. This variable serves as the link between the Main and the Episode files. Each case has a unique record identifier and this appears on every episode

WGHT_EPI

Episode weight. in 2010, the episode weight indicates the number of time use episodes that a record on the Episode File represents (see p. 14 of Cycle 24's Documentation and User's Guide)

ACTCODE

Activity code of the episode.

act_label

Activity (labeled).

STARTIME

Start time (in minutes) of the episode.

ENDTIME

End time (in minutes) of the episode.

DURATION

Duration (in minutes) of the episode.

origin

Place of origin of the episode (in code).

destination

Place of destination of the episode (in code).

orig_label

Place of origin of the episode (labeled).

dest_label

Place of destination of the episode (labeled).

YEAR

The year of the survey (2010).

MODE

The transportation mode of the episode (walking).

LUC_RST

Code with the characteristic of the respondent's region of residence (how urbanized/rural).

PRV

Code of the Province or Territory.

Pop_centre

This variable informs if the respondent resides in a Census Metropolitan Area or Census Agglomeration.

Province

Name of the Province or Territory.

Source

General Social Survey (GSS) / Odesi

Adapted from Statistics Canada, General Social Survey Cycle 24, 2010 This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

See also

Cycle 24: Time-Stress and Well-Being . Public Use Microdata File Documentation and User’s Guide