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Energy consumption by rural migrant workers and urban residents with a hukou in China: quality-of-life-related factors and built environment

Natural Hazards volume 99, pages 1431–1453 (2019)Cite this article

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This paper compares energy consumption (electricity, gasoline, and gas) by rural migrant workers and urban residents with a hukou (a China-specific household registration system) and influential factors (including quality-of-life [QOL]-related factors, built environment, and individual and household attributes) in China. A questionnaire survey was conducted in Dalian (a coastal city) in 2014 and in Guiyang (an inland city) in 2015, respectively. A zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) model was applied to understand whether and how much people consume a certain type of energy. The results showed that built environment explains 8.4–21.8% and 6.3–41.4% of the total variance in energy consumption by rural migrant workers and urban residents with a hukou. The corresponding variance related to QOL-related factors was 9.1–15.8% and 4.1–22.6%, respectively. The built environment was mostly associated with electricity consumed by urban residents with a hukou, while its influences on other types of energy consumption were moderate. Mixed effects of both built environment and QOL-related factors on reducing energy consumption were observed. Thus, it is context-sensitive whether and how much compact city development and social security policy affect residents’ energy consumption.

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  1. For energy consumption in China, see https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy/country-and-regional-insights/china.html (Accessed November 10, 2018).

  2. For urbanization rates in China, see http://www.gov.cn/guowuyuan/2018-02/04/content_5263778.htm (in Chinese, Accessed November 9, 2018).

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This research has been financially supported by a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (No. 26303003) and a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), JSPS (No. 15H02271).

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Jiang, Y., Zhang, L. & Zhang, J. Energy consumption by rural migrant workers and urban residents with a hukou in China: quality-of-life-related factors and built environment. Nat Hazards 99, 1431–1453 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-019-03802-1

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