Fuel types used for heating in Waikato Region, New Zealand
Census years 2001, 2006, and 2013, % of private occupied dwellings
Fuel type used to heat dwelling | Census Year | % of stated |
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Electricity | 2001 | 60.92774742% |
Electricity | 2006 | 66.01457614% |
Electricity | 2013 | 73.97867447% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 19.9247116% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 19.43410276% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 16.47710642% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 32.45173042% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 31.52372572% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 16.38093247% |
Wood | 2001 | 47.32240437% |
Wood | 2006 | 44.01272592% |
Wood | 2013 | 39.11352708% |
Coal | 2001 | 8.621736491% |
Coal | 2006 | 6.331370293% |
Coal | 2013 | 3.58770646% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.774741955% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.972494867% |
Solar power | 2013 | 1.407066695% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 1.097753491% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 1.863760464% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 1.415429647% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 2.431086825% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 1.784787563% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 2.469161614% |
Definitions
Fuel types used to heat dwelling measures the type of fuel used for heating an occupied private dwelling. More than one fuel type may be used; for example, electricity, gas, coal, and wood. Insulation is not a fuel type.
Limitations of the data
Please refer to http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2013-census/info-about-2013-census-data/information-by-variable/fuel-type-used-to-heat-dwelling.aspx for details.
Data provided by
Dataset name
Census: Fuel types used to heat dwelling by Region, TA or Local Board Area 2013
Webpage:
http://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLECODE8100
How to find the data
Click on Customise > Selections. In 'Areas' select the desired breakdown. In 'Fuel types used to heat dwelling' select all types. Then export as a CSV.
For our purposes we manually calculated the percentages of total households stated for each fuel type and area.
Import & extraction details
File as imported: Census: Fuel types used to heat dwelling by Region, TA or Local Board Area 2013
From the dataset Census: Fuel types used to heat dwelling by Region, TA or Local Board Area 2013, this data was extracted:
- Rows: 2-3,466
- Columns: 6-7
- Provided: 6,300 data points
This data forms the table Census - Fuel types used to heat dwelling 2001, 2006, and 2013.