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From: Ben Anderson <b.anderson@soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 10:40:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] updated readme

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+DECC-git NEED
+============
+
+Extract & analyse data from the public versions of DECC's  NEED dataset
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+Original data available from: UK DATA ARCHIVE: Study Number 7518 - National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework, 2014
+http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/?sn=7518
+
+* Notes:
+* This dataset is a sample of just over 4 million households which have had an Energy Performance Certificate from the full NEED 'all dwellings' dataset
+* Is this all those who have had an EPC or a random sample of all those who've had an EPC?
+* Sample bias is unkown - which kinds of dwellings have an EPC?
+* Gcons<year>valid variable has undefined labels: G, L, M = ? Presumably 0 = off gas & V = valid?
+* ideally DECC should set missing to -99 to aid re-coding and avoid unpleasant surprises in naive analysis!
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