CITY HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CHOICES AND THEIR INFLUENCING FACTORS IN PAKISTAN

Authors

  • Muhammad Imran Khan Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi & Data Auditor at Data n Dashboards
  • Sohail Javed Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi Pakistan
  • Syed Kamran Abbas Naqvi Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i1.662

Abstract

The dissimilarities of cooking fuel are subjected to several attributes associated with the household’s personal life and social life. A household chooses firewood for cooking purposes because of easy access and affordability but also uses multiple energy sources at the same time. These choices become conditional upon a number of factors. These factors can be income, education, location, access, and awareness. The current study attempts to explore the influencing factors of joint energy choices for cooking in the cities of Pakistan. The study is grounded upon the microdata, collected by PSLM at the household level. The study uses Multivariate Probit (MVP) to capture jointly chosen sources of cooking energy and their influencing factors. The study found that households residing in D I Khan and tank city are dominantly using firewood and households residing in Karachi Lahore and Peshawar prefer to cook on gas energy. The study also found that education, internet use, and income are significantly associated with the choice of clean energy such as Gas and LPG for cooking at the household level in the cities of Pakistan. Distance to road and time to markets are negatively associated with clean sources of energy for cooking in Pakistan. 

Keywords: Cities, Energy choices, Cooking energy, and Household.

JEL classification Q40 R20

Author Biographies

  • Muhammad Imran Khan, Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi & Data Auditor at Data n Dashboards

    Ph.D. Scholar

     

  • Sohail Javed, Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi Pakistan

    Ph.D. Scholar & Staff Economist / Lecturer 

     

  • Syed Kamran Abbas Naqvi, Applied Economics Research Center, University of Karachi Pakistan

    Assistant Professor and Research Economist

Additional Files

Published

2022-03-31

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022): Pakistan Journal of Social Research (PJSR)

Section

Research Article

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How to Cite

[1]
“CITY HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CHOICES AND THEIR INFLUENCING FACTORS IN PAKISTAN”, Pak. J, Soc. Sci., vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 381–392, Mar. 2022, doi: 10.52567/pjsr.v4i1.662.