Cambridge Sub-Region Fuel

Poverty Atlas

Cambridge Sub-RegionFuel Poverty Atlas 2014

• The atlas shows fuel poverty in the Cambridge sub-region (Cambridgeshire and West Suffolk) from 2008 to 2012, based on estimates from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

• Estimates are for Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs), which are areas containing around 1,500 residents/600 households.

• This slideshow provides technical tips for how to use the atlas.

What is fuel poverty?

• There are two definitions of fuel poverty:

– Spending more than 10% of household income on maintaining a reasonable degree of thermal comfort. This is the older definition, tends to include more households and tends to highlight fuel poverty as a rural problem.

– High fuel cost/low income definition. This excludes high income households with very high fuel costs and tends to show more fuel poverty in urban areas.

The atlas

The overall look of the atlas depends on the browser used to access it. This slideshow uses screenshots from the HTML. Although they appear different, operation is generally the same.

HTML (newer browsers) Flash (older browsers)

Atlas Elements

Data “crumb-trail” explaining what data is currently being shown

To show the data for just one district, filter the data by district by clicking here and selecting from the dropdown

Click to switch the map to a table/ table to a map

Legend with colour key for map/table and bar chart

Comparison table. Shows comparator data for district, county, regional and national indicators where available

Bar chart. Shows data in chart form. Comparators selected in the comparison table will appear as a line here

Data explorer: select the data you wish to view from here

Information box. Shows more information about the data being displayed

Time series. Shows change in number or percentage of fuel poor households over the time period covered by the indicator.

Example This example shows the percentage of households spending more than 10% income on fuel in 2012 (selected from Data explorer, described in the crumb trail), filtered (filter data) for South Cambridgeshire.

The district comparator has been selected (comparison table) and is shown in the bar chart and time series. The bar chart only shows data for the filtered area (Fenland). The red line in the time series and the red column in the bar chart shows data for the area highlighted in the map.

Other useful tips• You can re-size all the elements in an atlas by using

the arrows in the arrows in the top right hand corner of each element (to make them visible, hover over the element you want to re-size).

• In Flash Atlases options such as printing or exporting individual elements, clearing filters and selected geographies can be accessed by pressing the secondary mouse button.

• Download data in Excel format from the “Download data button. More information about fuel poverty, and the atlas is available from the notes button.

Interactive features in the legend

• Clicking on the pencil icon in the legend (rosette in HTML atlas) brings up the legend settings.

• You can use this to change the colours of the map/bar chart and make other changes to the look of these elements.

• Clicking in the blue boxes next to the boundaries will make the boundaries visible. In this example the district boundaries are ticked and are outlined in dark blue.

• Selecting legend categories highlights them in the map and bar chart. In this example the top two legend categories have been selected are highlighted in orange in the map.

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