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4.6.2 Faculty/Staff
To address a similar question for the faculty and staff, Pearson's chi-square analyses
were conducted to test for relationships between the demographic and socioeconomic
variables and the drive alone commuting mode choice (see Table 15). As shown in the table's
data, there is a statistically significant relationship (p < .01) between the faculty/staff's drive
alone commuting choice and all factors except "having children under 18 living in the
household". To examine the strength of the association between the factor and the drive alone
variable, the Cramer's V statistic was calculated. As with the student data, only one factor,
having a parking permit, had even a medium association with the decision to drive alone.
Therefore, although there was a statistically significant relationship between driving alone and
6 of the 7 variables, the results of the chi-square analyses are not robust. As confirmed by the
Cramer's V test, no variable except having a parking permit had even a moderate influence on
that decision. Again, the large sample size of the dataset is most likely influencing the chi-
square statistic rather than demonstrating a true cause and effect situation. Calculating an
odds ratio to further characterize the size of this effect for faculty and staff indicates employees
with a parking permit were 7.3 times more likely to drive alone to campus than those without a
parking permit.76
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Waskey, Susan L. An Analysis of UNT Commuting Patterns, thesis, May 2010; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28489/m1/84/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .