{"id":3346,"date":"2014-01-08T13:11:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:08:45","slug":"using-energy-metering-data-to-support-census-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/using-energy-metering-data-to-support-census-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Energy Metering Data to Support Census 2021: A Feasibility Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Using Energy Metering Data to Support Census 2021: A Feasibility Study<\/em> is a project funded by the Office for National Statistics’ Beyond 2011<\/a> programme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Investigators: Dr Ben Anderson, Dr Patrick James & Prof. \u2018Bakr Bahaj<\/p>\n

Contact: b.anderson@southampton.ac.uk<\/p>\n

The possible demise of the decennial UK Census presents social, policy and commercial researchers with both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is to transform ‘census-taking’ by finding robust alternative methods for creating small area socio-economic indicators over time. The opportunity is to transform the very nature of the socio-economic indicators themselves using new analytic methods applied to new geo-coded datasets and to radically accelerate the temporal cycle from decennial to annual or sub-annual production. If we are no longer to be restricted to what can be asked in a Census, what kinds of social indicators might we want or be able to produce and when?<\/p>\n

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As a first step, this small scale Office for National Statistics funded project will explore the feasibility of predicting household level characteristics from two energy monitoring data sources.<\/p>\n

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The data to be used are:<\/p>\n

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  1. An energy consumption monitoring dataset held by the University of Southampton which derives from c 300 households from two case study areas in the Solent region where the Sustainable Energy Research Group is conducting ongoing trials of a range of \u2018energy efficiency\u2019 interventions as part of the ESRC\/EPSRC funded \u2018The Role of Community- Based Initiatives in Energy Saving<\/a>\u2019 (Energy Communities) project. Overall energy consumption data is collected every second and can be linked to repeated six-monthly survey data on household occupancy and other variables.<\/li>\n
  2. A similar dataset<\/a> collected by the University of Loughborough and archived by the UK Data Service for future research use which links consumption at one minute intervals to a baseline household occupancy and appliance ownership survey. This dataset derives from 22 dwellings observed over two years (2008-2009) and due to it\u2019s small size is likely to be of value only for exploratory or experimental analysis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    In both cases 30 minute summaries of the data will be used to replicate the kind of data that will initially be available from the proposed national electricity smart meter roll-out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Using Energy Metering Data to Support Census 2021: A Feasibility Study is a project funded by the Office for National Statistics’ Beyond 2011 programme. Investigators: Dr Ben Anderson, Dr Patrick James & Prof. \u2018Bakr Bahaj Contact: b.anderson@southampton.ac.uk The possible demise of the decennial UK Census presents social, policy and commercial researchers with both a challenge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125901,125902,125893],"tags":[468,552651,552646,417898,552650],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-and-modelling","category-energy-behaviour","category-grants","tag-behaviour","tag-customer","tag-energy-data","tag-energy-monitoring","tag-small-area-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}