Wellington district walkways : on the right track? : a recreation survey of two city walkways and two rural walkways in the Wellington district

Abstract

Because we are dealing with two quite different types of walkways, two systems were used, sometimes individually, sometimes in combination. With the rural walkways we adopted an approach of stationing the interviewer at a point where he could intercept most of the people using that walkway. With the city walkways, which have numerous entrance/exit points, the interviewer moved along the walkway. This way we were not just sampling users of one short section. However, both approaches were often combined, to try and achieve the best cover and produce the most unbiased results possible. The method of "working up" the data was to manually transfer it from the questionaires to summary sheets and from there, manually work the data into tables. This method was specifically adopted so that the resulting tables did not become too involved, thus rendering the information too complicated for most. The survey period was 7 January 1981 to 5 July 1981.