Producing and validating small area estimates of household electricity demand
1. Producing and validating small area estimates
of household electricity demand
Dr Ben Anderson
Sustainable Energy Research Centre
University of Southampton
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IMA 2013
Canberra, December 12th 2013
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Contents
What & Why
How?
Results
– Overall consumption
– Consumption inequalities
Conclusions & future Directions
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3. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
Contents
What & Why
How?
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Results
– Overall consumption
– Consumption inequalities
Conclusions & future Directions
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4. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
Digression: Geography
Southampton (UK)
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Digression: What’s a small area?
In this case…
– English Lower Layer
Super Output Areas
– Census 2001 LSOAs
– c. 630 households each
– 148 in Southampton City
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What & Why
Basically we want something for nothing
– Small area estimates of energy demand
– Without a bespoke energy census
Why?
– Infrastructure planning
– Energy efficiency intervention analysis
– Politics!
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The problem:
Small area summaries exist
But they are aggregates
– Or averages
And we want a micro-level model
– To micro-simulate change…
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What can we do?
A bespoke energy census
– ££££££££££££££££££££
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What can we do?
A bespoke energy census
– ££££££££££££££££££££
A large sample energy survey covering all
LSOAs
– ££££££££££
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10. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
What can we do?
A bespoke energy census
– ££££££££££££££££££££
A large sample energy survey covering all LSOAs
– ££££££££££
Small Area Estimation
– Take existing area level data
– Take (ideally) an existing large n survey
– Combine £
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Small Area Estimation
Econometric approaches
Income, income deprivation,
income inequality
smoking prevalence,
obesity,
consumption expenditure,
CO2, water…
– Well known
– Multi-level Models
– Usually requires census microdata for anything other
Innovation Network:
than means
“Evaluating and improving small area
estimation methods”
Re-weighting (and other) approaches
– Increasingly http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3210/
well known
– 'Spatial microsimulation'
– Does not require census microdata
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12. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
Contents
What & Why
Estimation
How?
Results
– Overall consumption
– Consumption inequalities
Conclusions & Future Directions
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Data
Data
– Living Costs and Food Survey 2008-2010
Consumption proxies (reported energy expenditure)
– Census 2001 (2011)
Projection
– Projected ‘surveys’
– Projected ‘census’
So far…
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Conceptually…
LSOA census ‘constraint’ tables
Survey data cases
If Region = 1
LSOA 1.1
(Region1)
If Region = 2
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Weights
LSOA 2.1
(Region2)
Iterative proportional fitting
Ballas et al (2005)
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Key First Job:
Choose your constraints
Census data
Survey data
You may have little choice
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Key First Job:
The constraints
– Selected by stepwise regression
Expenditure
Number of persons
Employment Status
Accommodation type
Number of earners
Age of HRP
Age of HRP
Employment Status
Most important
Share of expenditure
Composition
Number of rooms
Number of children
Least important
R sq
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Ethnicity (non-white)
0.136
0.01
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IPF…
Well known!
Deming and Stephan 1940
– Fienberg 1970; Wong 1992
A way of iteratively adjusting statistical tables
– To give known margins (row/column totals)
In this case
– Create weights for each case so LSOA totals ‘fit’
constraints
– Weighting ‘down’
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Internal Validation methods
Use of constraints to re-create the Census
tables
Difference = Absolute Error
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Total Absolute Error (TAE) = sum of all
errors
Standardised AE = TAE/(n persons x n
constraint categories)
Smith et al:
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SAE of less than 20% and ideally less
than 10%
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Consumption
Mean SAE
p90
Ethnicity
2.18%
3.05%
Number of children
0.11%
0.22%
Number of rooms
0.05%
0.10%
Employment status
(HRP)
0.88%
1.22%
Age (HRP)
0.34%
0.75%
Tenure
0.07%
0.14%
Accomodation type
0.21%
0.51%
Number of persons
0.00%
0.00%
in 90% of the areas is desirable.
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Preliminary results: Electricity
Mean weekly £
Modelled
Census 2001
LC&F Survey 20082010
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Validation: Electricity
Mean weekly £
Observed @LSOA
DECC 2010
Spearman: 0.317
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Preliminary results: Electricity
Total weekly £
Modelled
Census 2001
LC&F Survey 2008-2010
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Validation: Electricity
Total weekly £
Observed @LSOA
DECC 2010
Spearman: 0.509
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What is causing the error?
Heating!
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2011 data
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What is causing the error?
Heating!
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2011 data
Housing growth
Combined
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25. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
Consumption inequality
Area level gini
R = -0.413
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(p < 0.001)
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Consumption inequality
Area level gini
R = 0.463
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(p < 0.001)
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My big worry
Data quality
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28. Small Area Estimates of Electricity Consumption
Contents
What & Why
How?
Results
– Overall consumption
– Consumption inequalities
Conclusions & Future Directions
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Conclusions
Outliers and errors are informative
Reported consumption data
– Could be dangerous
Census 2011 central heating
– Critical new constraint
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Future directions
Update for 2011 data
Census projection 1981 -> 2021
Use measured energy consumption
Contact:
– b.anderson@soton.ac.uk
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Notas del editor
Data from SPRG linked water demand survey2 implications:Error in the estimates (spurious correlation with constraints)Error in any policy microsimulation