Fuel types used for heating in Tararua District, New Zealand
Census years 2001, 2006, and 2013, % of private occupied dwellings
Fuel type used to heat dwelling | Census Year | % of stated |
---|---|---|
Electricity | 2001 | 58.52193995% |
Electricity | 2006 | 56.69867398% |
Electricity | 2013 | 60.62992126% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 3.002309469% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 2.697759488% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 2.269569245% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 37.59815242% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 36.35116598% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 18.06391848% |
Wood | 2001 | 83.00230947% |
Wood | 2006 | 82.53315043% |
Wood | 2013 | 81.14867994% |
Coal | 2001 | 3.37182448% |
Coal | 2006 | 3.337905807% |
Coal | 2013 | 2.269569245% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.877598152% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.868770005% |
Solar power | 2013 | 1.435849931% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 0.7852194% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 1.326017375% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 1.389532191% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 0.739030023% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 0.77732053% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 1.018990273% |
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.