An econometric study on the factors effecting household electricity consumption (city of chelef from 2004-2019)

AMAL ARGILLOS

Abstract

Household final consumption occupies an important place in Algeria; it is designated as the sole and ultimate objective of all production. In Algeria energy consumption continues to grow at the rate of 5% every year and this is due mainly to the improvement in the standard of living.

    This importance of household consumption inspired one to analyze the household consumption in the city of chelef in terms of some variables which are: the price of electricity,metrological data , economic activity, sociological determinants…….

One has done an empirical study for the impact of the independent variables on household electricity consumption in the city of chelef from 2004 to 2019. For this purpose one has estimated a model with two variables by using the OLS method. This estimation allowed detecting the relationship and the influence of each variable on household electricity consumption in the city of chelef.