Understanding the determinants of household cooking fuel choice in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Nigeria

This dataset was sourced from the fourth wave of the Nigerian Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS) datasets to examine the influence of remittances on cooking fuel choices, among other factors in Nigeria.
The dependent variable is households’ cooking energy choice obtained by asking households to state their cooking energy preference. It consists of thirteen (13) unordered cooking energy options, categorised into traditional (wood, animal waste, sawdust, coal briquette), transitional (kerosene, coal, and charcoal), and modern (LPG gas, piped natural gas, biogas and electricity) energy sources consistent with energy ladder literature. Variables such as remittance, gender, marital status, access to electricity, access to credit, household location, ownership of dwelling and geopolitical zone were operationalised as categorical variables, while household head education, average household education, distance to road, distance to market, dependency ratio and wealth index are continuous.

本数据集源自尼日利亚生活标准测量调查（LSMS）第四波数据集，旨在探究汇款对尼日利亚烹饪燃料选择的影响，以及其他相关因素。其中，因变量为家庭烹饪能源选择，通过询问家庭烹饪能源偏好而获得。该因变量包含十三种（13种）无序的烹饪能源选项，分为传统能源（木材、动物粪便、锯末、煤球）、过渡能源（煤油、煤炭和木炭）以及现代能源（液化石油气、管道天然气、生物气和电力），与能源阶梯文献保持一致。变量如汇款、性别、婚姻状况、电力接入、信贷接入、家庭所在地、住房所有权以及地缘政治区域被操作化为分类变量，而家庭户主教育程度、平均家庭教育程度、道路距离、市场距离、依赖比和财富指数则被视为连续变量。