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Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 23 Feb 2026 | Updated: 29 days ago

Net Zero Affordability

Dataset

Summary

Theme:
  • Economy and finance
  • Population and society
Description:
Estimates homeowners’ ability to afford the retrofit costs associated with the Scottish Government’s ambitions for net zero emissions by 2045.
Identifier:
DS_NZA
Access Tier:
Controlled

Documentation

Documentation:
Net Zero Affordability looks at estimating homeowners’ ability to afford the retrofit costs associated with achieving the government’s ambition of net zero greenhouse gas emissions from all buildings in Scotland by 2045. It combines consumer banking data to provide estimates of individual disposable income with census data and energy performance certificate (EPC) data to provide estimates of retrofit costs.
Synthetic Data:
A synthetic version is available for testing purposes

Coverage

Spatial

Spatial Coverage:
Scotland
Geographical Levels:
outward code

Temporal

Start Date:
20 January 2019
End Date:
20 January 2019
Frequency:
STATIC
Date of Latest Release:
01 April 2025
Date of First Release:
01 April 2025
Temporal Aggregation:
Point-in-time

Provenance

Origin

Purpose:
Administrative
Source:
Personal current account records from a major UK high street banking group

Access and Governance

Usage

Data Use Requirements:
  • Research specific restrictions
  • Ethics approval required
  • Project specific restriction

Access

Access Service:
Trusted research environment
Data Controller:
Smart Data Foundry
Licence:
License Not Specified

Format and Standards

Language:
English
Format:
Parquet