HI:Residential floorspace in Europe

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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

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 heande:HI:Air_exchange_rate_for_European_residences

Unit

m²

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.

Result

Initial results from data:

	Albania	Austria	Czech	Denmark	France	Germany	Finland	Greece	Hungary	Ireland	Italy	Norway	Poland	Slovenia
Median	66	65	69	93	79	75		78	71	73	87	97	59	70
Mean	64	72	74	101	83	84	81	81	75	72	90	104	46	75
Std. Dev.	35	31	36	43	37	35	48	28	33	22	33	48	54	38

Results with extrapolated values:

Country	Expolis Ach	Median	Mean	Std. Dev.
Greece	Athens	78	81	28
Italy	Athens	87	90	33
France	Athens/Basel	79	83	37
Portugal*	Athens	81	85	32
Spain*	Athens	81	85	32
Turkey*	Athens	81	85	32
Malta*	Athens	81	85	32
Austria	Basel	65	72	31
Germany	Basel	75	84	35
France	Athens/Basel	79	83	37
Belgium*	Basel	73	79	34
Luxembourg*	Basel	73	79	34
Netherlands*	Basel	73	79	34
Switzerland*	Basel	73	79	34
Denmark	Helsinki	93	101	43
Finland	Helsinki		81	48
Norway	Helsinki	97	104	48
Sweden*	Helsinki	95	95	47
Ireland	Oxford	73	72	22
Albania	Prague	66	64	35
Czech Republic	Prague	69	74	36
Hungary	Prague	71	75	33
Poland	Prague	59	46	54
Slovenia	Prague	70	75	38
Belarus*	Prague	67	67	39
Estonia*	Prague	67	67	39
Georgia*	Prague	67	67	39
Latvia*	Prague	67	67	39
Lithuania*	Prague	67	67	39
Republic of Moldova*	Prague	67	67	39
Romania*	Prague	67	67	39
Slovakia*	Prague	67	67	39

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

Results with R, assuming normal distribution

'	Albania	Austria	Czech	Denmark	France	Germany	Finland	Greece	Hungary	Ireland	Italy	Norway	Poland	Slovenia	Estonia	Romania	Slovakia
Mean	68	91	71	103	86	85	75	84	77		70	106	60	74	52	37	49
SD	24	43	28	45	38	37	38	30	31		15	53	40	31	25	27	18