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EDC Serial Number EDC0000014
Title CSE DIMPSA UK energy consumption by household income
Data Location https://www.cse.org.uk/projects/view/1259#Energy_consumption_data__domestic_
Linked Dataset outside of EDC
Description UK household energy consumption (quantiles) aggregated by household income (quantiles) developed by Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE) for the Distributional Impacts Model for Policy Scenario Analysis (DIMPSA), also used under license by the UK Government for assessment of the distributional impacts of Government policy.
DOI (none given)
Sector Domestic
Coverage United Kingdom
Start: 01/01/2004
End: 31/12/2009
Usage Rights for this Data Open Access
This data may be freely used for any purpose
Data Type Aggregated
Parameter Names Electricity consumption values (kWh) and counts of households for Electricity Consumption Quintile/Decile and Income Quintile/Decile; Gas consumption values (kWh) and counts of households for Gas Consumption Quintiles/Deciles and Income Quintiles/Deciles for all households (including non-mains gas users) / households with mains gas heating; Combined (Electricity + Gas) consumption values (kWh) and counts of households for Combined consumption Quintiles/Deciles and Income Quintiles/Deciles
Units 10 x income deciles
Number of Records (none given)
IEA Category Residential and commercial
Creator of the Data Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE)
Data made available by Centre for Sustainable Energy (CSE)
Format application/Excel
Language English
Project Domestic Energy Use
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Other Information Underlying Dimpsa is a comprehensive dataset developed of UK household energy consumption. This dataset is derived from the socio-demographically representative sample of UK households surveyed in the Office of National Statistics Living Costs and Food Survey. Data from six of these surveys (2004/5 to 2009) has been combined, generating a sample size of over 36,000 cases.