Closing the Energy Efficiency Gap: A study linking demographics with barriers to adopting energy efficiency measures in the home

Energy

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 348-357

  Pelenur, Marcos J ^a   Cruickshank, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers; Cities; Demographics; Energy efficiency; Multi response contingency tables; Rao Scott chi square test

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BARRIERS; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; CITIES; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DEMOGRAPHICS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); DEMOGRAPHY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; POLICY MAKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868540706     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.09.058     Document Type: Article

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