HI:Volume of European residences

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Scope

Residences of all types (not distinguished) in Europe by country.

Definition

Data

Obtained from UNECE Bulletin of Housing Statistics for Europe and North America 2006 Table Households by number of persons and square metre (m2) of useful floor space. To obtain volume, floorspace was multiplied by a height of 3 m.

Definitions from Bulletin:

• Dwelling - A dwelling is a room or suite of rooms and its accessories in a permanent building or structurally separated part thereof which by the way it has been built, rebuilt, converted, etc., is intended for private habitation. It should have a separate access to a street (direct or via a garden or grounds) or to a common space within the building (staircase, passage, gallery, etc.). Detached rooms for habitation which are clearly built, rebuilt, converted, etc., to be used as a part of the dwelling should be counted as part of the dwelling. (A dwelling may thus be constituted of separate buildings within the same enclosure, provided they are clearly intended for habitation by the same private household, e.g. a room or rooms above a detached garage, occupied by servants or other members of the household.)

• Room - A room is defined as a space in a dwelling enclosed by walls, reaching from the floor to the ceiling or roof covering, and of a size large enough to hold a bed for an adult (4 sq.m at least) and at least 2 metres high over the major area of the ceiling. In this category should fall normal bedrooms, dining-rooms, living-rooms, habitable attics, servants' rooms, kitchens and other separate spaces intended for dwelling purposes. Kitchenettes, corridors, verandas, lobbies, etc., as well as bathrooms and toilets, should not be counted as rooms.

• Floor space of a dwelling - Two concepts of floor space of a dwelling are used:
  • Useful floor space is the floor space of dwellings measured inside the outer walls, excluding cellars, non-habitable attics and, in multi-dwelling houses, common spaces.
  • Living floor space is the total area of rooms falling under the concept of "room" as defined above.

UNECE also provides data such as average useful floor space or average useful living space. Useful floor space was chosen as the main source of floor space data. Because the desired result for this variable is in the form of parameters that can be used to derive a distribution, rather than use tables of the average useful floor space, tables that categorized the percentage of homes in certain ranges of floor space were used. Data in this format was not available for some countries.

For Finland, data from Tilastokeskus.

Extrapolation to countries that did not have data in the UNECE tables for categorized useful floor space were extrapolated based on the air exchange rate categories from INTERA:Air_exchange_rates_in_European_homes

Initial results in m³ based on the data:

	Albania	Austria	Czech	Denmark	France	Finland	Germany	Greece	Hungary	Ireland	Italy	Norway	Poland	Slovenia
Median	198	196	208	278	236		226	234	212	219	261	292	178	211
Mean	192	215	222	302	250	243	251	244	225	216	270	312	139	226
Std. Dev.	105	93	109	130	110	144	104	84	100	65	98	145	161	113

Causality

Residential floorspace in Europe

Room height

Unit

m³

Formula

Distributions were developed for floor space by setting cumulative distribution percentiles according to UNECE table and values were set to upper end of ranges in table (under 50m², 50m² to 74m², 75m² to 99m², 100m² to 149m², 150m² and more). This corresponds to 49, 74, 99, 149, and 250. For Finland floor area per person was multiplied by average number of persons per dwelling in 2008 to obtain mean value. Standard deviation was taken from standard deviation of Norway.

Floor space was multiplied by a default height of 3 m.

Result

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• *Extrapolated using average of median, average of mean, average of standard deviation for those countries in same Expolis category with data in UNECE.