TY - JOUR
T1 - Cooking fuel choice in rural China
T2 - results from microdata
AU - Hou, Bing Dong
AU - Tang, Xin
AU - Ma, Chunbo
AU - Liu, Li
AU - Wei, Yi Ming
AU - Liao, Hua
PY - 2017/1/20
Y1 - 2017/1/20
N2 - Unclean cooking fuel is widely used in the developing world, and it is the main indication of energy poverty in rural China. In this paper, we investigate the situation, transition, and determination of fuel choice in China's rural household cooking. Using the large scale micro-survey data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we find that there is a big gap in using commercial cooking fuels between rural and urban households: 60% of the rural households adopt traditional biomass resource as their main fuel for cooking in 2011, while this figure is less than 5% in the urban. We also identify a significant spatial divide in fuel choice: in southeastern coastal areas, about 40% of the rural households prefer solid fuels, while this figure jumps to over 80% in northeastern areas. The longitudinal data also reveal a significant transition from traditional to modern fuels from 2008 to 2012. Moreover, the distance to the most commonly used farmer's market, education background, coal price and female labor participation are all influential in determining the households' choices.
AB - Unclean cooking fuel is widely used in the developing world, and it is the main indication of energy poverty in rural China. In this paper, we investigate the situation, transition, and determination of fuel choice in China's rural household cooking. Using the large scale micro-survey data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), we find that there is a big gap in using commercial cooking fuels between rural and urban households: 60% of the rural households adopt traditional biomass resource as their main fuel for cooking in 2011, while this figure is less than 5% in the urban. We also identify a significant spatial divide in fuel choice: in southeastern coastal areas, about 40% of the rural households prefer solid fuels, while this figure jumps to over 80% in northeastern areas. The longitudinal data also reveal a significant transition from traditional to modern fuels from 2008 to 2012. Moreover, the distance to the most commonly used farmer's market, education background, coal price and female labor participation are all influential in determining the households' choices.
KW - Cooking fuel
KW - Energy poverty
KW - Household
KW - Rural China
KW - Solid fuel
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84971643796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.031
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.031
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84971643796
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 142
SP - 538
EP - 547
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
IS - Part 2
ER -