Fuel types used for heating in New Zealand houses
Census years 2001, 2006, and 2013, % of private occupied dwellings
Fuel type used to heat dwelling | Census Year | % of stated |
---|---|---|
Electricity | 2001 | 71.98155854% |
Electricity | 2006 | 74.7813856% |
Electricity | 2013 | 79.21806223% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 13.46562607% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 13.22102199% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 11.98015675% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 28.2579409% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 27.65757632% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 15.4342235% |
Wood | 2001 | 44.69635385% |
Wood | 2006 | 40.87219515% |
Wood | 2013 | 36.75066839% |
Coal | 2001 | 9.301329452% |
Coal | 2006 | 6.988617324% |
Coal | 2013 | 4.133941914% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.945562236% |
Solar power | 2006 | 1.078504821% |
Solar power | 2013 | 1.586443159% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 1.084656146% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 2.084867423% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 1.5667219% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 2.779345015% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 2.360416547% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 3.038090494% |
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.