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Fuel Poverty Index - Scotland

This dataset is a Scottish Fuel Poverty Index created in the summer of 2023 by EDINA@University of Edinburgh as part of their student internship programme. The user guide provides descriptions of each data variable used in creating the index. The basic rationale was to replicate for Scotland work that had been conducted previously but only in respect to England and Wales. The two indices are not strictly directly comparable due to data availability and spatial granularity but provide standalone snapshots of relative fuel poverty across Great Britain. The Scottish Index is fully open source and for purposes of transparency and repeatability this guide provides an open methodology and is accompanied by the underlying data. Data are provided in good faith ’as is’ and is the sole product of student effort as part of mentoring activities conducted by EDINA at the University. Each variable that was used in the Index was normalised relative to the individual values for that variable - which means the values presented in the underlying FPI data table do not represent the actual numbers for each local authority - merely the percentage relative to the other local authorities in Scotland. A separate file ”Fuel-poverty-index-raw-data-with-calc.csv” is available which contains the raw percentages used for the index along with a table containing the calculations used to obtain the final score and the main FPI data table.


Fuel Poverty Index Excel: This file contains each Scottish local authority's ability to pay score, demand score and final score which were all obtained from the several different variables. The raw data for these variables can be found in the Raw Data file and an explanation for each variable can be found in the User Guide document. The scores are between 1 to 100 and are normalised relative to each other. This means the final scores do not represent the actual physical values for each area.


Fuel Poverty Index csv: This file contains the normalised processed data that makes up the Scottish fuel poverty index with variables being in range of 1 to 100. Some variables have been weighted depending on how important they are to the index. The final scores rating each Scottish local authority from 1 to 100 are also included.


Raw data: This file contains the raw unprocessed data that the index was created from for all Scottish local authorities.


User Guide: This file contains the documentation of the process to create the index as well as descriptions of what each column in the Fuel Poverty Index csv file contain. This file also provides some examples of the visualisation created from the index


Fuel Poverty Index Shapefile: This folder contains the .shp shape file comprising all the data from Fuel Poverty Index csv, in addition to also having the geospatial polygons associated with each local authority boundary. For the best viewing, the British National Grid EPSG 27700 coordinate system should be used.

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Identification info

Alternative title

fpi

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2023-11-16
Identifier
www.spatialhub.scot / sh_fpi
Point of contact
  The Improvement Service - Spatial Hub Custodian
Livingston , West Lothian , EH54 6AX , United Kingdom
01506 282012
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Spatial representation type
Vector
Distance
100  m
Topic category
  • Economy
  • Society
  • Boundaries
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Temporal reference

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Code
EPSG:4258
Code
EPSG:27700
Code
EPSG:3857

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

OGC:WMC

1.3.0

 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://data.spatialhub.scot/dataset/fuel_poverty_index-is

Fuel Poverty Index - Scotland

 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

This dataset was amalgamated, optimised and published by the Spatial hub.


The following quality assurance checks and corrections are carried out on the data:

- Polygons are dissolved/ aggregated by key name and local authority.

- The minimum polygon area allowed in the data is 25 square meters

- Checks for invalid geometry types

- The maximum angle for any spikes is 3 degrees

- Any duplicate geometry is removed from the data

- Duplicate key names for polygons are not removed

- Polygons with no key names are not removed

- Checks for basic geometry i.e. self-intersection


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Metadata

File identifier
cf93af62-e1a2-43f3-b05f-0366961f9b00 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2023-11-16T15:41:15
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

The Improvement Service

Position name

Spatial Hub Custodian

Voice

01506 282012

City

Livingston

Administrative area

West Lothian

Postal code

EH54 6AX

Country

United Kingdom

Electronic mail address

spatialhub@improvementservice.org spatialhub@improvementservice.org.uk

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  The Improvement Service - Spatial Hub Custodian
Livingston , West Lothian , EH54 6AX , United Kingdom
01506 282012
 
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Statistical units

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