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Table 1
Family structure has the most important effect on scores for travel benefits of family-and-friendship ties, even after controlling for other factors

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  Family-and-friendship Rest-and-relaxation Learning-and-discovery
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Estimated coefficients
Base score (when all variables are held constant) 3.36 4.91 3.97
Sex
Men 0.00 0.00 0.00
Women 0.19* 0.10* 0.16*
Family structure
Solo aged 25 to 54 0.00 0.00 0.00
Solo aged 55 and over 0.21 -0.63* 0.13
Couple aged 25 to 54 0.79* 0.05 -0.38*
Couple aged 55 and over 0.80* -0.58* -0.32*
Husband-wife family with child(ren) under 18 1.05* -0.13 -0.62*
Lone-parent family with child(ren) under 18 1.04* 0.02 -0.58*
Household Income
Household income under $60,000 0.00 0.00 0.00
$60,000 to $99,999 -0.03 0.01 0.02
$100,000 or more -0.11 0.10 -0.04
Refused, not stated 0.09 -0.04 -0.10
Highest level of education
High school diploma or some postsecondary education 0.00 0.00 0.00
Diploma or certificate from a college or trade school 0.00 0.04 0.08
University degree -0.06 -0.27* 0.75*
Main activity during previous 12 months
Retired 0.00 0.00 0.00
Full-time paid work -0.11 1.06* -0.07
Part-time paid work -0.08 0.68* -0.11
Other (includes homemaker; student, etc.) 0.02 0.76* 0.01
Other travel benefits sought that are highly important to me (score 6.0 or more)
Rest-and-relaxation 0.61* ... ...
Family-and-friendship ties ... 0.58* 0.68*
When choosing a destination […] is highly important to me (score 6.0 or more)
Having lots of activities for children 0.62* -0.05 -0.44*
Having lots of activities for adults 0.31* 0.25* 0.92*
Friends or relatives live there 0.81* -0.50* -0.48*
Being very different from home 0.15* -0.10 1.34*
Knowing the language and/or culture 0.16* 0.15* -0.42*
Feeling safe 0.30* 0.34* -0.07
No health concerns 0.15* 0.19* 0.04
An affordable travel package 0.06 0.33* 0.01
Adjusted R-squared 0.17 0.18 0.19
† reference group for the category
†† reference group for each category is " [Variable name] is not highly important," e.g. "Rest-and-relaxation is not highly important to me"
e.g. "Rest-and-relaxation is not highly important to me
* statistically significant difference from reference group at p < 0.01
Note: R-squared is a statistical measure of how well a regression line approximates real data points. It ranges between 0 and 1.
Source: Statistics Canada, Travel and Activity Motivation Survey, 2006.