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Sheet 1: Contents
Gender differences in commute time and pay | ||||||||||||
Statistical contact: Vahé Nafilyan | ||||||||||||
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics | E-mail: earnings@ons.gov.uk | |||||||||||
Labour Force Survey, Office for National Statistics | ||||||||||||
Notes | ||||||||||||
For ages 16-64 and in employment | ||||||||||||
Table 1 | Median travel time (minutes) by gender, 2002 to 2018, GB | |||||||||||
Table 2 | Median travel time (minutes) by gender and age, GB | |||||||||||
Table 3 | Median travel time (minutes) by gender and age (London and the rest of the country), GB | |||||||||||
Table 4 | Median gross weekly earnings (£) by gender and age, GB | |||||||||||
Table 5 | Median gross hourly pay (£) by gender and age, GB | |||||||||||
Table 6 | Effect of commuting time (minutes) and hourly pay (£) on annual job separation rate by gender, GB | |||||||||||
Table 7 | Under and over 30 median commuting time (minutes), by gender and travel to work area | |||||||||||
Table 8 | Commuting time (minutes) proportion comparison, LFS and ASHE |
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Estimating commuting time in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings | ||||||||||
ASHE does not provide direct information on commuting time or mode. However, it contains information on the postcode of the home and workplace of the employee. We use these postcodes to estimate commuting time using a trip planner app, following these steps | ||||||||||
1. Retrieve the latitude and longitudes of the postcode centroids using the ONS Postcode Directory. | ||||||||||
2. Find the nearest road to the postcodes centroids using Open Street Map ( OSRM) | ||||||||||
3. Use the PropeR tool to estimate travel time. We estimated travel time by car or public transport, setting the arrival time at 9:00am on Monday. Due to technical limitations, this was only possible if the home and work postcodes were in the same or in an adjacent region. | ||||||||||
We applied this method to compute travel time by car and public transport for the 1,065,549 combinations of postcodes that we have in the 2002 to 2018 ASHE. Driving time could not be obtained for 137,329 postcodes combinations (12.9%). Travel time by public transports could not be calculated for 340,403 postcodes combinations (31.9%). | ||||||||||
Based on these calculated travel time by car and public transport, we estimated travel time as follows | ||||||||||
· Set to missing driving time if road distance is lower than the straight-line distance1: 10,016 records (0.9%) | ||||||||||
· Use driving time if driving time is shorter than public transport, unless the employee lives in inner London, or works in Central London, in which case we use travel time by public transport | ||||||||||
· Set to missing if travel time is over 4 hours - 3,014 records (0.02%) | ||||||||||
· For postcodes combinations with missing travel time, impute travel time based on a regression model using straight-line distance interacted with region and urban status as predictors. | ||||||||||
· Cap commuting time to 4 hours | ||||||||||
ONS also publishes self-reported estimates of commuting time in the Labour Force Survey (LFS). These take precedence as our best estimate of commuting time – the calculations used here are for the purposes of this analysis only. | ||||||||||
For table 6, post-estimation calculations based on Cox proportional hazard model which include penalised splines for commuting time and hourly pay as well as additional covariates individual and job characteristics : age (second-order polynomial), hours worked (second-order polynomial), annual leave entitlement (second-order polynomial), occupation (at 2-digit level), sector ( public/private), number of employees (quintiles) living in an urban area, year, and Travel to Work Area. Models are estimated separately for men and women. Standard errors clustered at the individual level. | ||||||||||
1 The straight-line distance is computed based on the postcode centroid, whereas the driving distance is computed based on the nearest road to the postcodes. Therefore, it is possible for the road distance to be lower than the straight-line distance. We therefore only discard travel time if the difference between road distance and the straight-line is lower than minus one kilometre |
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Median travel time (minutes) by gender, 2002 to 2018, GB | ||||
95% Confidence intervals | ||||
Gender | Year | Median travel time | Lower bound | Upper bound |
Male | 2002 | 21.10 | 20.90 | 21.28 |
Male | 2003 | 21.23 | 21.05 | 21.42 |
Male | 2004 | 21.57 | 21.40 | 21.77 |
Male | 2005 | 21.55 | 21.35 | 21.73 |
Male | 2006 | 21.92 | 21.72 | 22.10 |
Male | 2007 | 22.13 | 21.95 | 22.34 |
Male | 2008 | 22.50 | 22.33 | 22.73 |
Male | 2009 | 23.05 | 22.88 | 23.26 |
Male | 2010 | 23.17 | 22.97 | 23.33 |
Male | 2011 | 23.15 | 22.98 | 23.32 |
Male | 2012 | 23.27 | 23.10 | 23.43 |
Male | 2013 | 23.57 | 23.38 | 23.78 |
Male | 2014 | 23.68 | 23.50 | 23.89 |
Male | 2015 | 23.65 | 23.45 | 23.82 |
Male | 2016 | 23.70 | 23.53 | 23.87 |
Male | 2017 | 23.92 | 23.75 | 24.13 |
Male | 2018 | 23.85 | 23.67 | 24.05 |
95% Confidence intervals | ||||
Gender | Year | Median travel time | Lower bound | Upper bound |
Female | 2002 | 15.77 | 15.63 | 15.92 |
Female | 2003 | 16.02 | 15.88 | 16.18 |
Female | 2004 | 16.23 | 16.08 | 16.38 |
Female | 2005 | 16.37 | 16.23 | 16.53 |
Female | 2006 | 16.58 | 16.45 | 16.70 |
Female | 2007 | 16.75 | 16.58 | 16.91 |
Female | 2008 | 16.98 | 16.82 | 17.13 |
Female | 2009 | 17.27 | 17.13 | 17.40 |
Female | 2010 | 17.55 | 17.42 | 17.68 |
Female | 2011 | 17.58 | 17.47 | 17.68 |
Female | 2012 | 17.85 | 17.72 | 17.98 |
Female | 2013 | 18.18 | 18.03 | 18.32 |
Female | 2014 | 18.45 | 18.32 | 18.59 |
Female | 2015 | 18.47 | 18.32 | 18.60 |
Female | 2016 | 18.52 | 18.37 | 18.65 |
Female | 2017 | 18.84 | 18.73 | 18.98 |
Female | 2018 | 18.93 | 18.82 | 19.08 |
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings | ||||
1 Commuting time is estimated based on the home and work postcode via a trip planner app. The median is calculated using survey weights. The 95% confidence intervals of the weighted median, estimated via bootstrapping. |
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