Energy-saving behavior of Turkish women: A consumer survey on the use of home appliances

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 775-807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meltem Ucal
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Turkish Women ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Home Appliances ◽  
Saving Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

This paper focuses on energy-related attitudes and behaviors of Turkish women, who are the main users of electrical home appliances responsible for most household energy consumption. Answers from 1323 female respondents surveyed through a unique questionnaire formed the dataset. The results from analysis of variance show that education has a significant effect on the relationship between energy saving and awareness and attitudes about climate change. Significant differences also exist between education level groups in terms of knowledge of the classification of energy-saving electrical home appliances. Responses to questions related to energy-saving purchasing behaviors are consistently higher for knowledgeable respondents. The paper then uses factor analysis and ordinal logit models to reveal interactions between energy-saving behavior regarding electrical home appliances and several factors, namely awareness, sensitivity, essentials, and receptiveness. The identification of these factors can provide useful insights for policy makers that enable them to construct energy-saving policies specifically tailored toward women.

scholarly journals A multi-country study of household energy saving behaviour.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ela Tabaku
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Electricity Pricing ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Saving Decisions ◽  
Energy Conservation Measures ◽  
The Relationship

Due to the increased worldwide demand for electricity, governments and policy makers are looking to identify tools to help reduce household energy consumption. This study examines the relationship between the empirical and attitudinal variables and the likelihood of implementation of household energy conservation measures and investments, using a wide data set involving household level characteristic from 10,252 respondents from ten different countries (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden). Moreover, the effects of time varying electricity pricing on household energy saving measures and investments is evaluated. Using the multivariable probit model, this project makes comparison across the ten countries incorporating socio-demographic characteristics, and allows for the potential correlation between energy saving decisions (measures and investments).

scholarly journals A multi-country study of household energy saving behaviour.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ela Tabaku
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Electricity Pricing ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Saving Decisions ◽  
Energy Conservation Measures ◽  
The Relationship

Due to the increased worldwide demand for electricity, governments and policy makers are looking to identify tools to help reduce household energy consumption. This study examines the relationship between the empirical and attitudinal variables and the likelihood of implementation of household energy conservation measures and investments, using a wide data set involving household level characteristic from 10,252 respondents from ten different countries (Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden). Moreover, the effects of time varying electricity pricing on household energy saving measures and investments is evaluated. Using the multivariable probit model, this project makes comparison across the ten countries incorporating socio-demographic characteristics, and allows for the potential correlation between energy saving decisions (measures and investments).

The determinants of household energy-saving behavior: Survey and comparison in five major Asian cities

Energy Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 354-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiro Hori ◽  
Kayoko Kondo ◽  
Daisuke Nogata ◽  
Han Ben
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Saving Behavior

scholarly journals Review on the Importance of Gender Perspective in Household Energy-Saving Behavior and Energy Transition for Sustainability

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7571
Author(s):  
Bindu Shrestha ◽  
Sudarshan R. Tiwari ◽  
Sushil B. Bajracharya ◽  
Martina M. Keitsch ◽  
Hom B. Rijal
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Energy Sustainability ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Saving Behavior ◽  
And Gender

Energy-saving and efficiency represent a crucial role in achieving a clean environment as well as economic and social development, providing substantial benefits to stakeholders, including householders. Better cost savings can be achieved by simply changing behavior. However, real energy users lack proper technical energy knowledge, awareness, and education in most cases. In most countries, women are involved in a higher percentage of energy activities in household chores but have less gender participation in energy decisions. In this regard, a gender perspective effectively understands energy users’ pragmatic and strategic needs for energy-saving behavior improvement. Previous literature reviews have been focusing on specific aspects of energy sustainability; however, no review has focused on energy-saving from a gender perspective to the best of our knowledge. It aims to provide a systematic review of literature on energy-saving and management, highlighting the importance of gender roles and fulfilling the literature’s study gaps that provide future possible research streams. The review finds that females use lower energy than males in household activities that has supported in household energy-saving behavior. In addition, gender, income, family composition, ownership, and education are significant influencing factors in energy-saving behavior, and gender differences are rooted in socialization, responsibility, and choice of energy appliances that have impacted energy decisions influencing energy-saving behavior and sustainability goals.

scholarly journals Mothers’ Satisfaction with Youth Out-of-School-Time Programs

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Juyoung Jang ◽  
Jodi Dworkin
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Out Of School Time ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
School Time ◽  
Ordered Logistic Regression ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Out Of School

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors related to mothers’ satisfaction with youth out-of-school-time (OST) programs. The relationship to demographic characteristics and the effects of mother’s perception of youth OST program opportunities on mothers’ satisfaction with OST programs are discussed in this paper. Ordered logistic regression revealed the positive effects of partner’s working hours, mother’s education, and mother’s perception on mother satisfaction. Generalized ordered logit models further revealed that the effects of the variables and the effects of child sex, income, and race differed by the level of mother satisfaction. These findings have important implications for youth workers and policy makers.

scholarly journals Exploring the “Energy-Saving Personality Traits” in the Office and Household Situation: An Empirical Study

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 3535
Author(s):  
Qian-Cheng Wang ◽  
Yi-Xuan Wang ◽  
Izzy Yi Jian ◽  
Hsi-Hsien Wei ◽  
Xuan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conservation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Household Situation ◽  
Household Environment ◽  
Saving Behavior

Behavior-driven energy conservation has been a promising strategy for reducing building energy consumption as well as carbon emissions. With the intention of revealing the impacts of an individual’s personality basis on energy conservation behavioral attitudes and intentions in households and offices, the present study proposes and conducts an experiment in Xi’an, China with two groups for the investigation of such attitudes towards household energy-saving behavior (HESB) and office energy-saving behavior (OESB), respectively. The research adopts structural equation modeling for experiment data analysis. The analysis results suggest that the two personality traits, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, are significantly related to both HESB and OESB attitudes. Especially, agreeable people tend to present stronger energy-saving attitudes, while individuals with higher Neuroticism are less likely to do so. The results indicate that the impacts of these two traits on energy-saving attitude are found to be less influenced by different environment settings. Further, the results find that Extraversion positively influences energy-saving attitude in the office environment, while Openness only significantly works in the household environment. It is hoped that the findings of the present study can provide informative references to energy-saving intervention design as well as further studies on the spillover of pro-environmental behaviors.

Household Energy-Saving Behavior Questionnaire

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Webb ◽  
Geoffrey N. Soutar ◽  
Tim Mazzarol ◽  
Patricia Saldaris
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Saving Behavior

scholarly journals Why Low-Carbon Publicity Effect Limits? The Role of Heterogeneous Intention in Reducing Household Energy Consumption

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (22) ◽  
pp. 7634
Author(s):  
Jin Zhang ◽  
Lianrui Ma ◽  
Jinkai Li
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Energy Awareness ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Consumption Behavior ◽  
Household Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Behavior ◽  
Saving Behavior

Low-carbon knowledge is seen as having a key role in interfering with household energy consumption behaviors by wide consensus from political and academic areas. Whether low-carbon publicity will help to reduce household energy consumption is still in dispute. By constructing an integrated knowledge-intention-behavior model and using 1335 detailed survey questionnaires of household energy behavior in Henan Province, the central area in China, this paper finds that in the developing area low-carbon knowledge or publicity cannot positively impact household energy-saving behavior even if mediated by energy awareness and energy-saving attitudes. Low-carbon knowledge does improve energy-saving attitude and attitude does not decrease household energy consumption directly. Familiarity with particular energy-saving knowledge would decrease the household energy consumption but not significantly in the statistics. Path analysis unfolds the reason that the heterogeneous effects of purchase-based intention and habitual intention explain energy consumption behavior. Subgroup analysis supports those economic factors of income and energy prices play key roles in explaining such household energy consumption behavior in the rapid urbanization area. This paper gives new evidence on the residential energy-saving behavior intervention among developing areas.

K-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM BASED CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL FERTILITY IN NORTH WEST NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 780-787
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Hassan Hayatu ◽  
Abdullahi Mohammed ◽  
Barroon Ahmad Isma’eel ◽  
Sahabi Yusuf Ali
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
North West ◽  
R Programming ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The Relationship

Soil fertility determines a plant's development process that guarantees food sufficiency and the security of lives and properties through bumper harvests. The fertility of soil varies according to regions, thereby determining the type of crops to be planted. However, there is no repository or any source of information about the fertility of the soil in any region in Nigeria especially the Northwest of the country. The only available information is soil samples with their attributes which gives little or no information to the average farmer. This has affected crop yield in all the regions, more particularly the Northwest region, thus resulting in lower food production.  Therefore, this study is aimed at classifying soil data based on their fertility in the Northwest region of Nigeria using R programming. Data were obtained from the department of soil science from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The data contain 400 soil samples containing 13 attributes. The relationship between soil attributes was observed based on the data. K-means clustering algorithm was employed in analyzing soil fertility clusters. Four clusters were identified with cluster 1 having the highest fertility, followed by 2 and the fertility decreases with an increasing number of clusters. The identification of the most fertile clusters will guide farmers on where best to concentrate on when planting their crops in order to improve productivity and crop yield.

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