Fuel types used for heating in South Waikato 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 | 51.57648891% |
Electricity | 2006 | 56.45351118% |
Electricity | 2013 | 64.11428571% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 15.5702608% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 14.79011377% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 12.19047619% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 32.85325029% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 32.01255394% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 15.04761905% |
Wood | 2001 | 68.31451927% |
Wood | 2006 | 65.59435073% |
Wood | 2013 | 60.72380952% |
Coal | 2001 | 6.033476061% |
Coal | 2006 | 4.825421734% |
Coal | 2013 | 2.933333333% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.622810432% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.627697136% |
Solar power | 2013 | 0.99047619% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 1.012066952% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 2.079246763% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 1.485714286% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 1.284546516% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 0.980776775% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 1.447619048% |
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.