Strategy of Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction in Residential Building Sector: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China

Table 2

Description of the STIRPAT model variables.

Abbreviations	Variables	Definitions	Units
AP	Average persons per household	Dividing the total population by the number of households	Person
pCA	Per capita housing construction area	Per capita residential building area of residents	m^2/person
UR	Urbanization rate	The proportion of urban population in the total population	%
R&D	Rate of the expenditure on research and development to GDP	The rate of expenditures on research and development to the gross domestic product	%
CDD	Cooling degree days	The summation of temperature differences between the daily mean temperature and 26°C for the day whose mean temperature is higher than 26°C in a year	°C • d
HDD	Heating degree days	The summation of temperature differences between the daily mean temperature and 0°C for the day whose mean temperature is lower than 0°C in a year	°C • d
EC	Energy consumption per household	The average energy consumption per household of the city in a certain year	Kgce/household