Housing-related lifestyle and energy saving: A multi-level approach

Energy Policy

Volumn 102, Issue , 2017, Pages 73-87

  Thøgersen, John ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer innovativeness; Energy saving; Housing related lifestyle; Multi level latent class analysis

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; HOUSING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONSUMER INNOVATIVENESS; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; ENERGY CONSUMER; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; HOUSING; LIFESTYLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EUROPE;

EID: 85004125515     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2016.12.015     Document Type: Article

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