Household Energy Use in Developing Countries : A Multicountry Study
This report builds upon a large body of work on household energy carried out by World Bank and other researchers during the 1980s and 1990s. Much of that earlier research was based on specialized energy surveys (see Barnes and others (2002) for a s...
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| Format: | ESMAP Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/10/2857647/household-energy-use-developing-countries-multicountry-study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19647 |
| Summary: | This report builds upon a large body of
work on household energy carried out by World Bank and other
researchers during the 1980s and 1990s. Much of that earlier
research was based on specialized energy surveys (see Barnes
and others (2002) for a summary of many of the earlier
findings). The earlier research has helped formulate many of
the issues and hypotheses addressed in this report. The
major novel contributions of this report stem from its
systematic and comparable use of energy-related household
survey data. The report presents an explorative overview of
what can be achieved in terms of household energy analysis
with LSMS and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. The
analysis helps confirm a number of stylized facts regarding
household energy-for example LPG is mostly used by the urban
better-off, the urban poor use cash wood, firewood is
universally used in rural areas, and so on-and it
contributes ideas and data sources for a proposed
comprehensive global database on household energy access.
The report also presents regression analysis of the fuel
uptake decision, and pursues this by quantifying fuel
switching. This can be useful for targeting purposes in
cooking fuel interventions, and leads to caution regarding
the prospects of large-scale wood displacement in rural
areas. The report confirms a universal correlation between
electrification and fuel switching and quantifies the linkage. |
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