Analysis of Household Expenditure on Electricity in Palestine

Yousef Abdel Jawad and Issam Ayyash
Additional contact information
Yousef Abdel Jawad: Al-Quds Open University, Palestine,
Issam Ayyash: Palestine Technical University, Palestine.

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2019, vol. 9, issue 5, 237-243

Abstract: The aim of the study is to explore and determine the factors influencing household expenditure on electricity in Palestine for 2011, using the OLS method in data analysis, and using the logarithmic model. The effect of the number of dwelling rooms, number of bedrooms, income, number of family members, and goods and services on household electricity expenditure. The study found that the number of rooms in the dwelling, number of bedrooms, income, number of family members, total expenditure on goods and services were all statistically significant and positively associated with spending on electricity. The study showed that the urban areas are the most spending on electricity, and according to the region, the study showed that the central areas of the West Bank is the most spending on electricity, while it was found that the housing used in the construction of external walls concrete, the least expenditure on electricity.

Keywords: Household electricity; Expenditure on electricity; Electricity in Palestine. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 C21 C51 P21 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/download/8035/4515 (application/pdf)
https://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijeep/article/view/8035/4515 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eco:journ2:2019-05-26

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy is currently edited by Ilhan Ozturk

More articles in International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy from Econjournals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ilhan Ozturk ().