Household Metabolism in the Five Cities.

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other consumption 1000 Euro 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 transport recreation education hygiene clothing and footwear household effects house food 0 Average Stockholm City Average Sweden Urban rich Young and poor Single with car Squeezed with children Figure 5.1: Expenditures related to indirect energy use during 1996 in six Swedish households. The relative importance of the expenditures is shown in Figure 5.2. Food amounts to between 25-30 % of the expenditures. Other important expenditure categories are housing (excluding expenditures on heating), clothing and footwear, and recreation. Households in Stockholm City spend more on clothing, footwear and recreation than the average Swedish. 100% 80% 60% 40% other consumption transport recreation education hygiene clothing and footwear household effects house food 20% 0% Average Stockholm City Average Sweden Urban rich Young and poor Single with car Squeezed with children Figure 5.2: Relative expenditures related to indirect energy use in six Swedish households, 1996. 29
7.2 How many items do the households buy? From the expenditure survey and consumer prices it is possible to estimate the numbers and kg of items consumed by the households. Such a cross-check is valuable for validating the calculations of household energy use. Using this method, we estimated that each person in the average Stockholm City household bought 700 kg of food while the corresponding figure for the average Swedish one was 625 kg. These are plausible figures as national statistics suggest a food consumption of around 700 kg per person and year (Carlsson-Kanyama and Linden, 2001). But when we compare the results for food from the four other households with the national estimates the figures become more difficult to explain. The inhabitants of the Urban and Rich household bought 1,400 kg food each during 1996. Either they had a big party during the time when they recorded their purchases, or they bought food for storage, or else they bought very expensive food. The figures are more realistic for the households called Young and Poor and Squeezed with Children, especially if one considers that children sometimes eat outside the home and that the cost for this is included in the child-care expenditure. The same test for toilet paper showed that the Stockholm City and Swedish household bought 64 and 80 rolls each and they also bought 13 litres of soap and shampoo. Table 5.3 shows some selected results from the account of amounts purchased for the Stockholm City and Swedish household. We are confident that the EAP analyses are based on plausible assumptions on consumer prices and expenditure patterns, but it is also important to have in mind that the account is based on one years expenditure pattern only and that consumer prices are likely to vary a lot. Table 5.3: Amounts of products per year bought by Swedish households, 1996. Average Stockholm City Average Swedish Food, kg 1,300 1,400 Toilet rolls, number 64 80 Schampoo, litre 13 13 Dresses, number 1 0.7 Trousers, number 4 2.3 Underwear, number 10 8 Sport shoes, number 1 1.4 Towels, number 4 1.2 Iron, number 1 0.3 5.3 Indirect energy profiles Figure 5.4 shows how the average Stockholm City household used its indirect energy. The indirect energy use was largest for food, with 33 % of the total, while the share for the house was 8 %, and 17 % was used for recreation. 30
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Page 5 and 6: 2 Summary The study present results
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