Wave 17 included an overarching project to investigate people’s indoor residential environment and their energy use.
See also:
- 9.49 Indoor residential environment: consent for in-home sensor
- 9.50 Domestic energy use: consent for smart meter data linkage
As well as the experiments testing variants of consent questions (see sections above), additional content about homes and energy usage were carried non-experimentally within the household questionnaire.
Some of these questions were variants of questions previously carried within the survey, such as questions on the heating systems and consumer durables within people’s homes, featuring new response options. Others were new questions, seeking to measure features of respondents’ homes we have not previously measured.
New questions
- heatcont [Heating controls]
- hwtaps [Hot water taps]
- hwshower [Hot water shower]
- warmroom [Living room warm in winter]
- fueleffort [Effort to reduce energy use]
- meterown [Household energy meters]
Modified or adapted questions
- heat [Household heating]: Adapted version of heatch
- cduseadp [Consumer durables in accommodation]: Adapted version of cduse with revised response options.
