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Percent of Households with Energy Security
At the community or landscape scale, the percent of households with sufficient fuel provides information on the overall availability of fuel. See the discussion in Metric 3 about defining energy security.
How to operationalize the metric
Method of data collection and data needed to compute the method:
Similar methods as used in Metric 3 are suggested for this metric.
Unit of analysis:
The community, district, or administrative region is the unit of analysis.
Limitations regarding estimating and interpreting:
Because this metric is an aggregation of household level data, it is important to ensure consistent understanding of the question by respondents and consistent meaning behind their responses. See Metric 3 discussion about subjective responses to the concept of “adequate” fuel.
Domain:
Environmental