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Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) at Johns Hopkins University have released ACCESS 2018 survey datasets covering more than 9,000 households from 756 villages in 54 districts collecting about 2.5 million data points. The datasets can be downloaded from Harvard Dataverse.
The Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity – Survey of States (ACCESS), India’s largest multidimensional survey, is conducted across six of the major energy - access - deprived states in the country – Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.
The results from the first round of the study, ACCESS 2015 , highlighted the need to look beyond connections to enable rural India’s access to modern forms of energy. In 2018, we revisited the households to understand the changes in their energy access situation over the last three years, and to study the impact of government policies during this period. The 2018 survey makes the overall dataset (2015 and 2018) the largest panel data on multidimensional energy access in the world.
To learn more about the data, see the 2018 report “Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity – Survey of States (ACCESS)”.
The data can be freely used for non-commercial purposes. To do so, please include the following citations:
Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India 2018 (ACCESS 2018)
Mani, Sunil; Shahidi, Tauseef; Patnaik, Sasmita; Jain, Abhishek; Tripathi, Saurabh; Ganesan, Karthik; Aklin, Michaël; Urpelainen, Johannes; Chindarkar, Namrata; Council on Energy, Environment and Water; Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy; National University of Singapore, 2019, "Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India 2018 (ACCESS 2018)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AHFINM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:d/vh6MRo+g0Xc4Pd25rO1w== [fileUNF]
Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India (ACCESS 2015)
Aklin, Michaël; Cheng, Chao-yo; Ganesan, Karthik; Jain, Abhishek; Urpelainen, Johannes, 2016, "Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India (ACCESS 2015)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0NV9LF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:uyURSR27cisb1HRgFvrkZg== [fileUNF]
The data collection for this round was supported by Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and National University of Singapore.
We acknowledge the leadership and core team of CEEW, Lee Kuan Yew School and ISEP who directed this study and also the researchers including, but not limited to Abhishek Jain, Sudatta Ray, Karthik Ganesan, Michaël Aklin, Chao-Yo Cheng, Sunil Mani, Namrata Ravindra Chindarkar, Saurabh Tripathi, Sasmita Patnaik, and Tauseef Shahidi.