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+#########################################
+#* Script to:
+#  * - Extract data from DECC LSOA level domestic energy consumption data 
+# (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mlsoa-and-llsoa-electricity-and-gas-estimates)
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2014-2015  University of Southampton
+# 
+# Author: Ben Anderson (b.anderson@soton.ac.uk, @dataknut, https://github.com/dataknut) 
+# [Energy & Climate Change, Faculty of Engineering & Environment, University of Southampton]
+# 
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License 
+# (http://choosealicense.com/licenses/gpl-2.0/), or (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# YMMV - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/YMMV
+
+######################################
+
+# Housekeeping ----
+
+# clear the workspace
+rm(list=ls())
+
+# libraries
+library(data.table)
+library(xlsx)
+
+# just to check where R thinks we are
+getwd()
+
+# data path
+dpath <- "~/Documents/Work/Data/DECC/LSOA Energy Data/2011/"
+# census path
+cpath <- "~/Documents/Work/Data/UK Census/2011Data/EW/lsoa/processed/"
+
+efile <- paste0(dpath,"Lower_Layer_Super_Output_Area__LSOA__domestic_electricity_estimates_2011_All_data.csv")
+# electricity file
+gfile <- paste0(dpath,"Lower_layer_Super_Output_Area__LSOA__domestic_gas_estimates_2011_Look-up_spreadsheets.xlsx")
+
+# Load data ----
+# first row contains variable names
+lsoaElec2011_DT <- fread(efile, header = TRUE, 
+                                col.names = c("lan", 
+                                              "lac",
+                                              "mlsoa",
+                                              "lsoa",
+                                              "kWh_ord",
+                                              "kWh_e7",
+                                              "kWh_tot",
+                                              "nmeters_ord",
+                                              "nmeters_e7",
+                                              "nmeters_tot",
+                                              "meankWh_ord",
+                                              "meankWh_e7",
+                                              "meankWh_tot"
+                                              )
+                         )
+
+# Gas data is not as easy to process as each GOR is in a different tab
+# and also there are some rows which are for multiple LSOAs due to potential
+# disclosure issues
+#lsoaGas2011_DT <- as.data.table(
+#  read.xlsx(gfile, sheetName = ""XXXXX", 1)
+#)
+
+head(lsoaElec2011_DT)
+
+# set join key
+lsoaElec2011_DT$zonecode <- lsoaElec2011_DT$lsoa
+setkey(lsoaElec2011_DT, zonecode)
+
+# Load Census data ----
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