Cycle training for children: Which schools offer it and who takes part?
The ‘Bikeability’ cycle training scheme, a flagship policy of the government in England, aims to give children the skills and confidence to cycle more safely and more often. Little, however, is known about the scheme׳s reach. We used operational delivery data to examine which primary schools in England offered Bikeability. Predictors included the deprivation level of the student body and the local prevalence of cycling. We then examined cycle training participation using data from 6986 participants (age 10–11) in the nationally-representative Millennium Cohort Study. Parents reported whether their child had completed formal cycle training, along with other child and family factors. We used operational data to identify children whose school had previously delivered Bikeability.
Keywords
Cycling; Cycle training; Children; Schools; Equity; Bikeability| Item Type | Dataset |
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Resource Type Resource Description Dataset UNSPECIFIED |
| Capture method | Compilation/Synthesis |
| Date | 30 July 2015 |
| Language(s) of written materials | English |
| Creator(s) | Goodman, A; van Sluijs, EM and Ogilvie, D |
| LSHTM Faculty/Department |
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- ) Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- ) > Dept of Nutrition and Public Health Interventions Research (2003-2012) |
| Research Centre | Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) |
| Participating Institutions | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; University of Cambridge |
| Funders |
Project Funder Grant Number Funder URI |
| Date Deposited | 19 May 2016 10:56 |
| Last Modified | 28 Sep 2018 21:18 |
| Publisher | Journal of Transport & Health |
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info - School-level analysis: predictors of offering Bikeability training among English schools outside of London (N=12,881 schools)
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info - Child-level analyses: predictors of completing cycle training among the full sample of Millennium Cohort Study children (N=6986)
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info - Child-level analyses: predictors of completing cycle training, stratified by whether the school had offered Bikeability (N=6543)
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Data Visualisation
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info - Scatter graph showing the association between the prevalence of adult cycling and the proportion of schools offering Bikeability, across 293 non-London, English local authorities
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