Fuel types used for heating in New Plymouth 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 | 51.38215325% |
Electricity | 2006 | 54.42318841% |
Electricity | 2013 | 64.40714209% |
Mains gas | 2001 | 44.11978661% |
Mains gas | 2006 | 38.93333333% |
Mains gas | 2013 | 31.79728429% |
Bottled gas | 2001 | 20.56256062% |
Bottled gas | 2006 | 23.08405797% |
Bottled gas | 2013 | 12.2848284% |
Wood | 2001 | 39.17313288% |
Wood | 2006 | 40.63768116% |
Wood | 2013 | 39.762643% |
Coal | 2001 | 2.400581959% |
Coal | 2006 | 2.342028986% |
Coal | 2013 | 1.454078905% |
Solar power | 2001 | 0.860814743% |
Solar power | 2006 | 0.915942029% |
Solar power | 2013 | 1.796215118% |
Other fuel(s) | 2001 | 0.618331717% |
Other fuel(s) | 2006 | 1.089855072% |
Other fuel(s) | 2013 | 1.144017962% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2001 | 1.988360815% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2006 | 1.692753623% |
No fuels used in this dwelling | 2013 | 1.977974981% |
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.