*3.1. Influence of Personal Attributes and Environmental Contexts on Access and Use of Green Areas*

This section describes the results of the analysis of relationships between personal attributes and environmental factors and the access and use of green areas. The results of the cross-tabulation of the number of respondents who visited or did not visit green areas and the data of socioeconomic attributes and environmental contexts are found on the left side of Table 1. Statistical analysis was applied to the respondents who reported annual household income (*n* = 953). The Chi-square and *t*-test indicate that the number of children in the household and household income variables had statistically significant correlations. As shown in Table 1, the respondents whose households had one or more children tended to visit green areas more compared with the respondents without any children. Furthermore, the respondents whose household income was relatively high (more than 400 million JPY, which is 38 thousand USD (10 November 2020)) tended to visit green areas more compared with those from relatively low-income households.

The *t*-test was applied to the average values shown on the right side of Table 1, and there was no statistically significant difference between the respondents who did and did not visit green areas during the emergency period.

According to the results, whether respondents visited visit green areas or not was influenced by their socioeconomic attributes, including the number of children and level of household income. Conversely, environmental context was not a major factor influencing the motivation or action to visit green areas.
