Domestic Energy and Appliance Usage, SA

NAME OF ORGANISATION
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

OVERVIEW

User funded survey of South Australian households. SA State Supplementary Survey topic selected by State Statistical Priorities Committee for this year was moved to March - May 1991. The vacant slot for October was then available for this user funded survey.

PURPOSE

To provide planning information for the key energy utilities and the SA Government. To determine the relative importance of different energy sources for major types (cooking, water heating, room heating and cooling) of demand. Assess trends in the use of appliances and energy types. Assess impact of energy conversation measures and substituting of one fuel for another.

SCOPE

Households living in SA in private dwellings except:

• members of the permanent defence forces;
• certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, customarily excluded from census and estimated populations;
• overseas residents in Australia; and
• members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia.
  

As per the Labour Force Survey, coverage rules are applied which aim to ensure that each person/household is associated with only one dwelling, and hence has only one chance of selection. The chance of a person/household being enumerated at two separate dwellings in the one survey is considered to be negligible.

Persons/households who are away from their usual residence for six weeks or less at the time of interview are enumerated at their usual residence (relevant information may be obtained from other usual residents present at the time of the survey).

DATA DETAIL

Conceptual framework

Information was collected from households in South Australia on:

• Appliance usage (heating, cooling, cooking)
• Fuel types used
• Dwelling structure
• Use of insulation
• Demographic and household characteristics
• Household income
• Permission to obtain energy consumption (12 months) details from energy utilities

Unit record files are available on request.

Available tables include:

• Appliances/facilities used for 1980, 1983, 1985/6, 1990
• Appliances/facilities by household income
• Type of energy used by location of household

Basic demographic classifications (such as age, sex) are used.

Other concepts (summary)

Not applicable

GEOGRAPHIC DETAIL
South Australia

Comments and/or Other Regions

Data is not available for small areas.

COLLECTION FREQUENCY
Adhoc

Frequency comments

Unlikely to be repeated unless funded by clients.

COLLECTION HISTORY

Similar surveys have been conducted in Nov 1980, June 1983 and in 1985-6.

DATA AVAILABILITY
Yes

Data availability comments