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 [1] 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[2]:

  • 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[3].

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

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

Result in m3

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

With extrapolated data:

  • *Extrapolated using average of median, average of mean, average of standard deviation for those countries in same Expolis category with data in UNECE.
Country Expolis Ach Median Mean Std. Dev.
Greece Athens 234 244 84
Italy Athens 261 270 98
France Athens/Basel 236 250 110
Portugal* Athens 244 254 97
Spain* Athens 244 254 97
Turkey* Athens 244 254 97
Malta* Athens 244 254 97
Austria Basel 196 215 93
Germany Basel 226 251 104
France Athens/Basel 236 250 110
Belgium* Basel 219 238 102
Luxembourg* Basel 219 238 102
Netherlands* Basel 219 238 102
Switzerland* Basel 219 238 102
Denmark Helsinki 278 302 130
Finland Helsinki 243 144
Norway Helsinki 292 312 145
Sweden* Helsinki 285 286 140
Ireland Oxford 219 216 65
Albania Prague 198 192 105
Czech Republic Prague 208 222 109
Hungary Prague 212 225 100
Poland Prague 178 139 161
Slovenia Prague 211 226 113
Belarus* Prague 201 201 118
Estonia* Prague 201 201 118
Georgia* Prague 201 201 118
Latvia* Prague 201 201 118
Lithuania* Prague 201 201 118
Republic of Moldova* Prague 201 201 118
Romania* Prague 201 201 118
Slovakia* Prague 201 201 118

Results for all countries (in m3, normal distribution)

country reference mean sd
Austria UNECE 215 93
Belgium
Bulgaria
Cyprus
Czech Republic UNECE 222 109
Denmark UNECE 302 130
Estonia
Finland Tilastokeskus 243 144
France UNECE 250 110
Germany UNECE 251 104
Greece UNECE 244 84
Hungary UNECE 225 100
Iceland
Ireland UNECE 216 65
Italy UNECE 270 98
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway UNECE 312 145
Poland UNECE 139 161
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia UNECE 226 113
Spain 262 0
Sweden
Switzerland
UK 262 0

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.unece.org/hlm/prgm/hsstat/Bulletin_06.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.unece.org/hlm/prgm/hsstat/Bulletin_06.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.stat.fi/til/asa/2008/asas_2008_2009-12-15_tau_002_en.html
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