Household Energy Consumption

The main objective of the Household Energy Consumption Survey (HECS) is to obtain information on energy consumption and energy costs in Latvian households. The survey is carried out every five years and its results are used for the preparation and implementation of energy strategy for Latvia and for the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions of Latvia.

The basic unit of the survey is the private household.

The target population of the survey is all private households in Latvia. Collective households (retirement homes for the elderly, boarding schools for disabled children, student hostels, hotels, barracks, hospitals, sanatoriums, penitentiaries, etc.) are not included in the survey.

• Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics.

Statistics database

The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) publishes information on the EU-27 and on a country-by-country basis on its website, in the Energy section's tables:

• Disaggregated final energy consumption in households - quantities (nrg_d_hhq);
• Disaggregated final energy consumption in households - calorific values (nrg_d_hhcv).

Data on household energy consumption are comparable to the 1996, 2001, 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2020 surveys.

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Data on household energy consumption are collected through a sample survey and participation of households is voluntary. The data sources were:

• 1996, 2001 and 2006 "Household Energy Consumption Survey";
• 2010, 2015 and 2020 "Household Energy Consumption Survey" (form EPM-1).

You can consult the survey forms in the website section Official Statistical Forms. (List of Statistical forms - only in Latvian.)

The sample is evenly distributed throughout the territory of Latvia. The survey covers the household living at a given address.

The sample for the Household Energy Consumption Survey is a two-stage stratified sample.

Final weights are used to obtain the estimates. The final weights are obtained based on the probable inclusion of the sample unit in the sample. The sample is drawn as a two-stage stratified random sample. In the first stage, primary sampling units (PSU) are selected. In the second stage, the sampling units are selected randomly from the selected PSU. This results in design weights, which are the inverse of the value of a sampling unit entering the sample. The resulting design weights are then adjusted for non-response, and finally the weights are calibrated with external information (number of natural gas users and cubic meters consumed). After calibration, the final weights are obtained and used to derive the estimates.

The survey data are generalised to all private households in Latvia.