Questionnaire of rural household energy consumption in the Loess Hilly Region in China

The usage description of this questionnaire: The questionnaire is filled in by the researcher during interview according to the answers of the investigated.

I. Basic Information of the Household

1.Site: No. , Group, Village, County

2.Family Members

Gender / Age / Degree of Education / Profession / Permanently residence or nor / Making money by taking a job or not
Householder

3.The main sources of the family income:______.

A. Food growing B. Vegetable growing

C. Livestock breeding industry______D. Enterprise or subsidiary business

E. Migration for work F. Others

4.Crops planted:

Types / Plantation acreage / Output (Kilo/Ha) / Price sold (Yuan/Ha) / Amount Sold
(Kilo) / Costing
(Yuan/Ha) / Usage of Crop straw / Notes
wheat
corn
potato
oilseed rape
flax

5.Livestock breeding

Types / Numbers / Incomes / dung (Kilo) / Usage of dung
cows
donkeys
pigs
sheep
Chicken, ducks, geese

II. Energy use

6.Types and amount of energy consumption for cooking, water boiling, Lighting, heating?(Types of energy: A. Crop straw, B. Grass, C. Wood, D. Animal dung, E. Coal, F. Electricity, G. Bio-gas, H.Solar energy, I.LPG)

Types of energy consumption / Types of energy / Amount of energy consumption / Time of energy consumption / Source of fuel / Notes
kilo/day / Kilo/year
Cooking / Crop straw
Wood
Grass
Coal
Water boiling / Crop straw
Wood
Grass
Coal
Solar energy
Tea boiling / Wood
Coal
Type of energy consumption / Quantity & power / Electric cost expenditure (Yuan/month) / Notes
Lighting / Electric lamp
Biogas lamp
Appliances / TV
Washing machine
VCD
Type of energy consumption / Energy type and quantity / Time of heating / Source of fuel
Heating / kang / ( )kilo/day
Grass
Wheat bran
cow dung
Coal
Stove / ( )kilo/day
Coal
Wood

7.The time to collect wood and grass and how much per day?

8.Who collect wood and grass? How many hours do they spend doing this per week?

9.How far is it to the place to collect wood and grass?

10.The type of cooking equipment and the cost?

A. Energy-saving oven-kang B. Fuel efficient stove

C. Others

11.The reasons to or not to use biogas:

A. B.

C. D.

12.The reasons to or not to use solar energy:

A. B.

C. D.

13.What policies do you think the government should put forward to, if the government advice you to use new energies like solar energy and biogas?

A. B.

C. D.

14.How many(______)months do you use biogas per year? In which, How many(______)months for cooking?

15.How many(______)months do you use solar energy per year?

16.How many(______)months do you have heating? How many square meters of heating area.

17.What do you use to generate biogas?

Amount of consumption(Kilo) / Source
Pig dung
Cow and sheep dung
night soil
Crop straw
Others

III. Energy collection and ecological environment

18.What is the proportion of the logs and branches in the wood?

19.Do you plant fuelwood forest? How large is it?

20.When the crop straw, wood and grass are not enough to use, what supplementary energy do you think of?

A. coal B. electric appliance C. firewood cutting D. sod shoveling E. biogas F. others

IV. The basic information of the village

21.There are ______families and ______people in the village, and

22.There are ______labor forces in the village and ______of them work in cities.

23.The average income of the village is ______Yuan. Taking this as a standard, ______families have the higher income and ______families have the lower income.

24.______families use solar cooker, ______families use biogas and ______families use both solar cooker and biogas.

25.What is the difference in energy resources between families of different incomes?

Families of higher incomes:______;

Families of lower incomes:______。

26.There are ______ha(s) of the cultivate land? (not including the farmland returning to the woodland). There are ______ha(s) of the farmland returned to the woodland. Does it influence your life or not?

27.The cost to plant crops:

Types / Cost(yuan/ha) / Notes
seed / chemical fertilizer / pesticide / mulch / total
wheat
corn
potato
Oilseed rape
flax

28.How far is it from the village to the nearest town? How many hours do you need to go to the town by foot? How many hours do you need to go to the town by bus?

29.How far is it from the village to the nearest coal market? Is the transportation convenient or not? What is the fee to transport coal?

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