Fuel types used for heating in Palmerston North City, New Zealand
Census years 2001, 2006, and 2013, % of private occupied dwellings
Fuel type used to heat dwelling | Census Year | % of stated |
---|---|---|
Electricity | 2001 | 61.04718067% |
Electricity | 2006 | 64.28493865% |
Electricity | 2013 | 73.67526813% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 54.09666283% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 47.93137148% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 40.52245938% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 23.22209436% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 23.53132805% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 11.82966975% |
Wood | 2001 | 25.45454545% |
Wood | 2006 | 28.23325008% |
Wood | 2013 | 28.88393331% |
Coal | 2001 | 2.451093211% |
Coal | 2006 | 2.215224237% |
Coal | 2013 | 1.274291176% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.632911392% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.629818656% |
Solar power | 2013 | 0.860146543% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 0.609896433% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 0.977304811% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 0.923861102% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 1.990794016% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 1.780866544% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 1.815864925% |
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.