English Housing Survey/Energy Efficiency of English Housing
Published by DCLG/DECC in 2012
Data Type:Sample survey
Contains data on the energy efficiency of the English housing stock. Includes tables on SAP ratings, installation of energy efficiency measures, those that could benefit from energy efficiency measures, CO2 emissions, heating/fuel costs, and households unable to heat their living room comfortably in winter.
The government is looking to reduce the cost of the English Housing Survey. Following a review in early 2015, they have decided not to pause the survey or amend it to run biannually. However, it is likely that aspects of the survey methodology and the data collected will alter somewhat in the upcoming years.
Time
The survey operates continuously. Data for the household survey are analysed annually and for the physical survey on a two-year rolling basis. Prior to 2008, the constituent elements of the English Housing Survey were run as separate surveys. The Survey of English Housing (centred on housing circumstances and attitudes) collected information from c.20,000 households and operated continuously from 1993/4 to 2007/8. Energy efficiency of English housing stock data was only separated out into a stand alone section of the English Housing Survey in 2012
Dataset Quality
- The sample for the survey is representative of England. There was a transition in methodology from 2011 to 2012 from a simple random sample to a partially clustered survey design for a single survey year. The survey is stratified by geog region, tenure, and household with an HRP who worked in a non-manual occupation (2001 census) and subsampled by tenure. The sample for the survey is drawn from the Postcode Address File (PAF) obtained from the Post Office. This offers a good coverage of residential households and dwellings in England. The sample does not however include any new dwellings built after the PAF was collated. The weights are adjusted using the number of new dwellings built between the PAF date and the reference date for the weighting to account for this error in coverage. Standardised training is in place to minimise measurement error amongst interviewers. Full-scale piloting of new questions is not carried out but new questions are reviewed following the first quarter of data collection. Non-response bias is dealt with in the weighting process. Greater detail on measures undertaken to enhance data quality are provided in a Technical Report
Levels of potential sampling error are assessed for this survey. Greater detail on this can be found in the Technical Report
Dataset Access and Use
Anonymised English Housing Survey data sets are released each year once the main annual reports have been published, via End User Licences available to all members of the public at the UK Data Service. Registration for this service is slightly different for HE/FE users. The English Housing Survey datasets with detailed geographic identifiers are available only via Secure Access at the UK Data Service
Government attitudes to research use of their data appear favourable
Resources
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| https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/english-housing-survey |