Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures

Catherine Waddams Price (), Karl Brazier, Khac Pham, Laurence Mathieu and Wenjia Wang
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Catherine Waddams Price: Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia
Karl Brazier: School of Computing Science, University of East Anglia
Khac Pham: Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia
Laurence Mathieu: Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia
Wenjia Wang: School of Computing Science, University of East Anglia

No 07-11, Working Papers from Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Abstract: The UK Government is committed to abolishing fuel poverty amongst vulnerable households by the year 2010 and in the general population by 2016, but definition and measurement of fuel poverty remains controversial. We define a new measure of subjective household experience and explore links between this measure and the official objective definition, using a unique data set and the Family Expenditure Survey. We identify the relation between the two measures; explore the characteristics of households in each group; and how each measure is related to other household factors.

Keywords: Fuel poverty; energy expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 I38 L97 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007-05
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