James Thomas
19th August 2020
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Using published statistics for each of the nearly 34,000 Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs) in England, I have estimated the annual gas and electricity use of the average domestic property by building type (detached, semi-deteched, terraced, flat, bungalow). Specifically, I created a model using council tax property type data and Index of Multiple Deprivation data for each LSOA, supplemented by 20-year average regional heating degree day (DDH) data, to predict median annual gas and electricity comsumptions of that LSOA. I then used this model to estimate average gas and electricity use for each property type.
notebooks- contains the modelling notebook and supporting notebooks.raw_data- contains the raw data downloaded from various sources (see References).map_data- contains a raster map of DDH regions, plus georeferencing.models- cached models.