The Role of Intra-Household Interactions and Personal Social Network Dispersion in Air Travel Frequency in the UK
This paper studies private air travel frequency among the UK population using a regression analysis. The analysis accounts for a large range of independent variables, including the respondents' partners' attributes, social network dispersion and migration background. We find that both havi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Findings Press
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Findings |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.120422 |
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| Summary: | This paper studies private air travel frequency among the UK population using a regression analysis. The analysis accounts for a large range of independent variables, including the respondents' partners' attributes, social network dispersion and migration background. We find that both having one's best friends and/or close family members abroad is associated with more frequent flights. Partners' friends living abroad also stimulate more frequent flights. Also, partners' education level and long-standing illness or disability are, respectively, positively and negatively associated with flight frequency. First generation migration background is associated with increased flying, while higher-order generation migration background (i.e. having parents or grandparents who were born abroad) is not. |
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| ISSN: | 2652-8800 |