new dataset is used to estimate a measure of energy poverty (EP) that is not conditioned by household preferences. The new …English Abstract: We calculate the demand for heating at the household level by integrating the technological data on … the heating needs of different types of buildings with the information available in Istat's Household Budget Survey. This …

there is no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …