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Commuter Statistics

The analysis of commuters gives an overview of the distances covered to reach the place of work or location of school/university.

Commuters are employed persons and pupils or students, who have to travel between their place of residence and their place of work or educational institution. Employed persons and pupils or students whose place of work or educational institution is in the same building where they live, are included, too.

Commuters are categorised into

  • economically active commuters
  • pupils/students commuting to an educational institution
  • persons who are not commuting

Economically Active Commuters

The number of economically active commuters is not derived from all economically active persons in total, but from their subset "employed persons". Women and men on maternity/parental leave with formal job attachment are not included, because even though they can return to their place of work after their temporary absence, they are not part of the commuting traffic until then.

Pupils/students commuting to an educational institution

This group includes all persons, who are currently attending a school/educational institution and who are not employed. Employed students are counted as economically active commuters, not as school commuters.

Persons who are not commuting

All other persons, who have their main residence in Austria and are counted in the census, but are neither pupils/students nor employed (for example: unemployed, persons on parental leave, children under the age of 15 not attending school, people who receive a pension, etc.).

The main attribute of the commuter statistics is the category of distance. This attribute has the following values:

  • not commuting in the sense that the place of work/educational institution is in the same building as the place of residence
  • commuting within the municipality (i.e. the place of work/educational institution is in the same municipality as the place of residence)
  • commuting between municipalities of the same NUTS-3 area
  • commuting between NUTS-3 areas of the same federal state
  • commuting between federal states
  • commuting abroad