Spatializing household energy consumption in the Netherlands: Socioeconomic, urban morphology, microclimate, land surface temperature and vegetation data

• Main Authors: Bardia Mashhoodi, Dominic Stead, Arjan van Timmeren
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920300123

Household energy consumption (HEC) is affected by a variety of determinants. In addition to the level of HEC in 2612 residential zones in the Netherlands (the so-called wijk) in 2014, this dataset provides a geographically-referenced data of 11 determinants of HEC on: (1) socioeconomic characteristics - namely income per capita, household size, population density; (2) urban morphology –namely buildings' surface to volume ratio, building age; (3) microclimate factors –namely number of summer days, number of frost days, humidity, wind speed at 10 m height; (4) land surface temperature; (5) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The dataset is initially prepared for an analysis titled as “Land surface temperature and households' energy consumption: who is affected and where?” [1]. Keywords: Household energy consumption, Land surface temperature, Micro climate, Urban morphology, Vegetation, Socioeconomic characteristics, Netherlands