Research Article

Determinants of Electricity Consumption Intensity in China: Analysis of Cities at Subprovince and Prefecture Levels in 2009

Table 3

Descriptive statistics and units of original data.

VariableUnitMeanStandard deviationMinimumMaximum

Output concentration ( 𝑋 1 1 )%45.53323.5858.038100.000
Population concentration ( 𝑋 1 2 )%33.22422.8774.368100.000
Industrial concentration ( 𝑋 1 3 )%48.89925.1405.447100.000
Fiscal concentration ( 𝑋 1 4 )%52.60025.4905.931100.000
Investment concentration ( 𝑋 1 5 )%45.04723.7667.300100.000
Share of industrial output ( 𝑋 2 1 )%50.37811.8149.74082.390
Share of industrial employment ( 𝑋 2 2 )%45.41915.1786.55079.450
Share of industrial electricity consumption ( 𝑋 2 3 )%65.96418.9267.24398.839
Decease rate of energy intensity ( 𝑋 3 1 )%4.9082.2950.8309.730
Decease rate of energy intensity of industry ( 𝑋 3 2 )%8.9843.0570.03015.100
Decease rate of electricity consumption intensity ( 𝑋 3 3 )%5.3300.8122.8106.970
Urbanization degree of the province ( 𝑋 4 1 )%46.9038.74329.89063.400
Share of nonagricultural population ( 𝑋 4 2 )%61.42325.21113.480100.000
Urbanization degree of the city ( 𝑋 4 3 )%44.32114.79013.840100.000
Average retail price of electricity ( 𝑋 5 )Yuan/MWH512.01385.014298.630699.400
Annual average temperature ( 𝑋 6 ) °C14.6535.294−1.88025.500
Ensured reserves of iron ore ( 𝑋 7 )100 million tons9.91616.6980.00070.200

Note. Some maximum values of concentration variables are 100% because of the fulfillment of urbanization in some region.