In this context, there is an absence of research addressing the assessment of overheating risks in residential buildings in Ireland. This study assesses data from a sample of 1100 social housing units in Dublin, the majority of which have a Building Energy Rating (BER) of C, repr...
though in many practical applications we anticipate that percentage will be much higher. The remaining 40% may be conventional fossil fuel-based material. These thresholds were developed in conjunction with input from NGOs, external manufacturing partners and scientists, and based on an assessment of...
Using a seven-point Likert scale (1=negative impact, 7=positive impact), participants were asked to rate the extent to which they experienced impacts on the same four areas as in Study 1—medical and health facilities, housing affordability, housing availability, and access to community ...
Also, since private health insurance compensates individuals in the “sick” state of Nature, it also decreases the likelihood that eligibility criteria for Medicaid (income and wealth thresholds) are met. The specific rules of Medicaid as public health insurance have implications for the budget ...
We tested three different models of group invariance: (a) a configural model in which the structure of the CFA is the same, but factor loadings and item intercepts (thresholds with ordered categorical data) are free to vary across groups; (b) a metric model in which the factor loadings ...
For consumers, the cost of basic necessities such as housing, healthcare, and education rose considerably faster than inflation, absorbing an ever-larger proportion of incomes (Exhibit 3). For savers, mandatory pensions have been scaled back ...
In line with previous research, two relative measures of child poverty will be used: the after housing costs (AHC) income of a family and a material deprivation index for children and their families. With this in mind, the following subsections will briefly discuss past research results related...
‘limited finances’ are defined depends largely on political decisions in the allocation of spending across local authority services, although there are national financial thresholds and eligibility criteria. In England, where the research we draw on was carried out, overall spending on statutory adult...
This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/K013661/1], with additional contributions from the Environment Agency and Rivers Agency (Northern Ireland). We thank Newcastle LAA members for their contributions. To maintain confidentiality, ...
Savings credit is generally available to single people with an income of up to £181 per week and couples with an income of up to £266 per week, although these thresholds may be higher depending on a range of factors such as disability, caring duties or certain housing costs such as ...