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Analysis of Fixture Efficiency and Behavioral Factors of Indoor Residential Water Use of Single-Family Households


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Abstract

This repository contains some datasets and code supporting the paper "Analysis of Fixture Efficiency and Behavioral Factors of Indoor Residential Water Use of Single-Family Households." The data includes city shapefiles and weather data, household clustering results using kmeans and functional kmeans algorithms, and detailed end-use characteristics across different household clusters. Also, the results of multilevel linear regression models examining the relationships between water use patterns and household attributes and differences in household attributes are included. The repository provides R scripts implementing Mixed Effects (ME) and Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE) models, along with Python Jupyter Notebooks for data processing, clustering, statistical testing, and visualization. This resource enables researchers to explore factors differentiating high and low water-using households, the relative importance of fixture efficiency versus behavior, and the effects of household size and weather variations on residential water consumption patterns across diverse US regions.

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Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
Place/Area Name:
Conterminous United States
North Latitude
49.5840°
East Longitude
-66.0059°
South Latitude
24.4896°
West Longitude
-125.0684°

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Content

Readme.txt

This repository contains data and code associated with the manuscript Analysis of Fixture Efficiency and Behavioral Factors of Indoor Residential Water Use of Single-Family Households. The repository is organized into data files and code files as detailed below.

## Data Files

1. City Shapefile: Located in the folder `city_shapefile`
   - Contains metropolitan statistical area (MSA) shapefiles 

2. Weather Data: Located in the folder `weather_data` and subfolder `PRISM`
   - Contains raster weather data from PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model)
   - Processed (tabular format) weather data are available in `weather_vars_process.csv`. Each weather variable in this file represents the average of pixels for each day within each city

3. Household Data: `num_unique_hhs.csv`
   - Contains the number of unique households within each city

4. Clustering Results: `clustering_results.csv`
   - Contains results and agreements of clustering of households within each of the three household categories using both kmeans and functional kmeans algorithms

5. Detailed Clustering Results: `household_cluster_wi_cities.csv`
   - Contains the detailed results of clustering (only agreements between the two methods used) within each city

6. End Use Characteristics: `end_use_charac.csv`
   - Contains the mean average and standard error of each end use characteristic (i.e., flowrate, frequency, and duration). Data is organized within each household category

7. Statistical Test Results: Folder `statistical_test_results_and_descriptive_stats`
   - Contains detailed results from Chi-square tests of independence (for categorical variables)
   - Contains detailed results from Kruskal-Wallis tests (for continuous variables)
   - Includes descriptive statistics for both categorical and continuous variables across household categories
   - Used to answer research question one in the manuscript

8. Linear Modeling Results: Folder `linear_modeling_results`
   - Contains detailed results of GEE (Generalized Estimating Equation) models
   - Contains detailed results of ME (Mixed Effects) models
   - Includes parameter estimates and level of uncertainty
   - Includes model diagnostics (e.g., variance inflation factors) for each model described in the manuscript

## Code Files

### R Scripts

1. ME.R
   - Runs the mixed effects models for research questions two and three
   - Note: The dataframes used to run this code are not included due to privacy reasons. Refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript for details

2. GEE.R
   - Runs the generalized estimating equation models for research questions two and three
   - Note: The dataframes used to run this code are not included due to privacy reasons. Refer to the Data Availability Statement in the manuscript for details

### Python Jupyter Notebooks

1. Prism_&_ACS_data.ipynb
   - Used to access and/or process the PRISM and US Census data

2. Clustering.ipynb
   - Conducts the kmeans and functional kmeans clustering
   - Visualizes clustering results

3. Figures.ipynb
   - Produces some of the figures used in the manuscript and supplementary information (SI) section

4. Statistical_tests.ipynb
   - Visualizes the statistical tests results used to answer research question one

5. ME_models_visuals.ipynb
   - Visualizes the results of the Mixed Effects models for the research questions two and three

6. GEE_models_visual.ipynb
   - Visualizes the results of the Generalized Estimating Equation models for the research questions two and three

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Related Resources

This resource has been replaced by a newer version Naseri, M. Y., G. Bernosky, P. Mayer, L. Marston (2025). Analysis of Fixture Efficiency and Behavioral Factors of Indoor Residential Water Use of Single-Family Households, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/3dce7ad4d8314436b1c22d66a5979590

Credits

Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER: Advancing Water Sustainability and Economic Resilience through Research and Education: An Integrated Systems Approach CBET-2144169
Global Change Center (GCC) and the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment (ISCE) at Virginia Tech
Edna Bailey Sussman fellowship
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Reanalyzing and predicting U.S. water use by economic history and forecast data; an experiment in short-range national hydroeconomic data synthesis G20AP00002

How to Cite

Naseri, M. Y., G. Bernosky, P. Mayer, L. Marston (2025). Analysis of Fixture Efficiency and Behavioral Factors of Indoor Residential Water Use of Single-Family Households, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/7d807be52063411ab0040c719e77e7cb

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