Indoor Temperature and Elderly Health Survey Data from 43 UK Homes, 2016-2018

43 homes in Bath, UK, with at least one occupant aged 65 or over participated in this study. Sensor data measuring living room and bedroom temperatures at 90-minute intervals was collected across four seasonal phases from November 2016 to September 2018, alongside monthly participant questionnaires on thermal comfort and health. The dataset, created by Caroline Hughes of the University of Bath, contains internal temperatures and self-reported comfort and health problems in Excel or CSV files.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between indoor temperature fluctuations and self-reported thermal comfort based on sensor and survey data.
• Analyzing seasonal patterns in temperature and reported health problems across the four project phases.
• Studying spatial temperature differences between living rooms and bedrooms in elderly households.
• Investigating potential correlations between long-term indoor environmental data and monthly health questionnaires.

Strengths

• Data collection spans four distinct seasonal phases over nearly two years, from November 2016 to September 2018.
• Includes data from 43 homes, all located in Bath, UK, with occupants aged 65 or over.
• Combines objective sensor measurements at 90-minute intervals with subjective monthly questionnaire responses.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• The geographic scope is limited to one city (Bath, UK), which may affect generalizability.

Provenance

Source

University of Bath

Collection Method

Sensor deployment in living rooms and bedrooms, and monthly questionnaires.

Time Range

November 2016 – March 2017; June 2017 – September 2017; November 2017 – March 2018; June 2018 – September 2018.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Bath, United Kingdom