Home Analytics Scotland provides essential data on the Scottish housing stock. This data is provided down to the address level and is available to the Scottish Government and local authorities to assist them in developing, targeting and delivering policies, schemes and programmes designed to improve energy efficiency, install renewable technologies and alleviate fuel poverty.
The core datasets that make up Home Analytics Scotland are:
- Energy Performance Certificate data
- Home Energy Efficiency Database (HEED) data
- Energy Saving Trust Home Energy Check (HEC) data
- Ordnance Survey AddressBase, MasterMap Topography layer and StreetMap data
- Scotland Gas Networks data
- Scottish Census data
- Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) data
Home Analytics Scotland contains elements of HEED but is designed to provide a more comprehensive profile of the housing stock, taking into account every address and systematically accounting for skews and biases in the underlying datasets.
Who can access Home Analytics Scotland datasets?
Home Analytics Scotland is accessed securely through the Local Homes Portal. The Local Homes Portal represents a centralised data hub for Home Analytics, HEED and EPC data that is designed to be accessed by a variety of users (eg householders, local authority users, supply chain users, etc). In order to access Home Analytics data, users need to login to the portal.
Home Analytics Scotland users can have two levels of portal access:
- reporting access (can download Excel reports and run aggregated or address-level queries)
- GIS access (reporting access plus use of the ArcGIS Online mapping tool)
Prospective users of Home Analytics Scotland are required to sign a data sharing agreement with Energy Saving Trust before access is granted. The recipient is then responsible for ensuring that use of the data complies with the terms of the data sharing agreement, which reflects the restrictions placed on use of the underlying datasets.
For more information, please contact the Local Homes Portal team.
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