Criticising the solitary mobile subject: researching relational mobilities and reflecting on mobile methods

Tables and GraphsSHP BHPS

Dimension Indicator variable label categories variable label categories

mobility practices lengths of residency at current place of residence

residence up to 5 years residence up to 5 years

6-12 years 6-12 years

13-18 years 13-18 years

more than 19 years more than 19 years

relocation across kantonal or regional borders

move interkantonal move move interregional move

no interkantonal move

no interregional move

umkanton interkantonal move umregion interregional move

intrakantonal move intraregional move

no move no move

relocation for job reasons jobmove Job reason for move jobmove Job reason for move

Job no reason for move

Job no reason for move

commuting time F.comtime/M.comtime (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

not employed F.comtime/M.comtime (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

not employed

less than 20 min less than 20 min

21 to 40 min 21 to 40 min

41 to 60 min 41 to 60 min

more than 1 hour more than 1 hour

commuting time Fcommuting/Mcommuting (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

Daily commuting time in minutes

Fcommuting/Mcommuting (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

Daily commuting time in minutes

socio-structural properties

age M.age/F.age (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

younger than 36 M.age/F.age (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

younger than 36

36 to 45 36 to 45

46 to 55 46 to 55

older than 55 older than 55

income (equalised household income)

income.eq (sfr per year) less than 35000 sfr/a

income (GBP per year) less than 20000 GBP/a

35001 to 70000 sfr/a

20001 to 40000 GBP/a

70001 to 100050 sfr/a

40001 to 60000 GBP/a

more than 100501 sfr/a

more than 60000 GBP/a

highest level of education M.edu/F.edu (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

primary education M.edu/F.edu (separate variables for the male and the female in one household)

primary education

secondary education secondary education

tertiary education tertiary education

type of household household couple without children

household couple without children

couple with children couple with children

single household* single household*

single parent* single parent*

infrastructural and geographical context

type of settlement urban urban agglo main Agglomeration

rural not main Agglomeration

availability of a private car car car available car car available

no car available no car available

type of residence house owner house owner

tenant tenant

* not included in the multiple correspondence analyses.

Table 1: Dimensions, indicators, variables and categories used in the analyses

Switzerland England

Male Female Male Female

Cohabiting couple without children 29.3 26.8 31.8 29

Cohabiting couple with children 55.9 51.2 53.6 48.9

Single household 13.1 14.8 12.8 9.5

Single parent 1.8 7.3 1.8 12.6

Sum of individuals n=3246 n=3544 n=2009 n=2201

Sum of households 4027 2495

Table 2: Distribution of households in percent, data: BHPS/SHP 2005

Switzerland England

type of household men women men women

cohabiting couple without children

41.0 (n=594) 36.1(n=644) 44.5 (n=480) 36.4 (n=576)

cohabiting couple with children

46.0 (n=1087) 25.0 (n=1278) 48.6 (n=771) 24.6 (n=947)

single household 39.7(n=368) 38.2 (n=465) 40.4 (n=203) 34.6 (n=180)

single parent 41.7 (n=44) 32.7 (n=217) 43.9 (n=28) 27.3 (n=250)

Sum 2093 2604 1482 1953

Table 3: Average commuting time in minutes by type of houshold, data: BHPS/SHP 2005

Switzerland England

cohabiting couple without

children

cohabiting couple with

children

single household

single parent cohabiting couple without

children

cohabiting couple with

children

single household

single parent

not moved 79.6 80.6 80.5 78.2 51.3 52.9 47.5 52.1

intraregional/ intrakantonal move

19.1 17.6 16.6 19.8 32.4 34.7 35.5 39.6

interregional/i interkantonal move

1.4 1.8 2.9 1.9 16.3 12.3 16.9 8.3

Sum 950 1813 524 257 638 1077 467 313

Table 4: Residential mobility in percent by household type, data: SHP/BHPS 2005

Graph 1: Commuting and residential migration in Switzerland, data: SHP 2005

Graph 2: Social and spatial structuring attributes, data: SHP 2005

Graph 3: Inner space of social and spatial attribute in the Swiss space of movements, data: SHP 2005

Graph 4: Types of mobility patterns, data: SHP 2005

(1) high commuting mobility, no cars, young, highly educated

(2) high residential mobility for job reasons

(3) old, outside the labour force, residentially sedentary

(4) low male education, medium commuting and low residential mobility

Graph 5: Commuting and residential migration in England, data: BHPS 2005

Graph 6: Social and spatial structuring attributes, data: BHPS 2005

Graph 7: Inner space of social and spatial structuring attributes, data: BHPS 2005

Graph 8: groups of mobility patterns, data: BHPS 05

(3) low residential and medium commuting mobility, medium education, family households

(1) highly residentially mobile for job reasons without children

(4) sedentary, poor, low education, outside the labour force, no car

(2) high commuting mobility, high income and high education, young age