Fuel types used for heating in Wellington 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 | 85.18221866% |
Electricity | 2006 | 87.21078521% |
Electricity | 2013 | 88.16245884% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 32.90949139% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 31.75441793% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 28.88254665% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 16.85022026% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 14.7066861% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 5.980241493% |
Wood | 2001 | 23.28293953% |
Wood | 2006 | 20.80069229% |
Wood | 2013 | 17.63336992% |
Coal | 2001 | 5.246295555% |
Coal | 2006 | 3.616323556% |
Coal | 2013 | 1.751920966% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.64577493% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.642193478% |
Solar power | 2013 | 0.790340285% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 0.780937125% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 1.052104208% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 0.794731065% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 2.487985583% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 2.295500091% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 3.253567508% |
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.