Literal question
7. Main source of heating:
[] Distance (block) heating, also community heating
[] Building central heating
[] Gas convection heaters
[] Built-in electric unit (permanently installed heater)
[] Central heating serving the dwelling (floor)
[] Individual stove
Fuel most used for heating:
Only fill in if there is a central heating serving the apartment or an individual stove. Only mark one fuel, please.
[] Wood
[] Coal, coke, briquettes
[] City gas, natural gas
[] Liquid gas
[] Fuel oil
[] Electricity (portable room heater)
[] Other fuel
Interviewer instructions
7, Primary type of heating:
The primary type of heating is that was used to heat the majority of rooms during the main heating period (last winter). "Distance heating should be marked not only in the case of heat supplied by a distance heating system but also if a block heating plant supplies several buildings of a building complex with heat.
If a single family home is centrally heated, and the question on heating was already answered on the building questionnaire (building questionnaire questions 18, 19), only "house central heating" should be marked on the housing unit questionnaire; the question on fuel must not be answered on the housing unit questionnaire.
Electric heating (permanently connected heaters) should also be marked e.g. in the case of electric wall, ceiling or floor heating.
Enumerator guideline:
Please note that in the first part of the question only one mark should be made. If "house central heating (heating serving one floor)" or "individual stove" was marked, then in the second part the primarily used fuel should be marked.
Because wood chip heating systems are more likely used for building central heating than for housing unit central heating, no separate marking option is provided for this on the housing unit questionnaire. In individual cases "other fuel" should be marked.
Purpose of the question:
This question concerns an important quality characteristic of every housing unit and also has macroeconomic meaning:
1. Which energy sources are used? In considering the average energy use and heating costs, calculations about the financial burden of certain household groups can be pursued.
2. The energy sources used have very different consequential costs in the field of environmental protection. With the advancement of environmentally friendly heating types, the taxpayers are ultimately relieved.
