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Using Data Mining to Assess Environmental Impacts of Household Consumption Behaviors Andreas Froemelt, David J. Dürrenmatt, and Stefanie Hellweg Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01452 • Publication Date (Web): 22 Jun 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 24, 2018
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Using Data Mining to Assess Environmental
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Impacts of Household Consumption Behaviors
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Andreas Froemelt*, David J. Dürrenmatt† and Stefanie Hellweg
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Chair of Ecological Systems Design, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, John-
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von-Neumann-Weg 9, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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KEYWORDS Household Consumption, Household Behavior, Life Cycle Assessment, Hybrid
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LCA, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Self-Organizing Map, Kohonen Map, Clustering
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ABSTRACT
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Household consumption is a main driver of economy and might be regarded as ultimately
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responsible for environmental impacts occurring over the life cycle of products and services.
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Given that purchase decisions are made on household levels and are highly behavior-driven, the
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derivation of targeted environmental measures requires an understanding of household behavior
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patterns and the resulting environmental impacts. To provide an appropriate basis in support of
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effective environmental policymaking, we propose a new approach to capture the variability of
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lifestyle-induced
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consumption patterns are derived in a two-tiered clustering that applies a Ward-clustering on top
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of a pre-conditioning self-organizing map. The environmental impacts associated with specific
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archetypical behavior are then assessed in a hybrid life cycle assessment framework. The
environmental
impacts.
Lifestyle-archetypes
representing
prevailing
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application of this approach to the Swiss Household Budget Survey reveals a global picture of
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consumption that is in line with previous studies, but also demonstrates that different archetypes
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can be found within similar socio-economic household types. The appearance of archetypes
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diverging from general macro-trends indicates that the proposed approach might be useful for an
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enhanced understanding of consumption patterns and for the future support of policymakers in
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devising effective environmental measures targeting specific consumer groups.
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1 Introduction
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Households are major drivers of the economy. Their consumption behavior triggers a
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multitude of economic activities along the supply chain of each product and service, which
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subsequently involves the use of resources and the release of emissions. Household consumption
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is estimated to be responsible for 65% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 50% to 80% of
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total land, material, and water use1. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 12
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(“Sustainable Consumption and Production”)2 demonstrates a large consensus that today’s
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consumption patterns are unsustainable and changes in consumer behavior are urgently needed3–
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complex economic, social, technological and cultural systems. In addition to informing
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households about their environmental impacts, policymakers should frame an enabling
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environment for individuals to change towards more sustainable lifestyles4,6,8,12.
. However, changing household consumption behavior is challenging4,6,12, as it is embedded in
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Several studies quantified environmental impacts induced by household consumption (see
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e.g.7,8,13–15 for reviews). While many studies focus on a national average household and on
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identifying environmental priorities of different consumption areas1,3,7,13,14,16,17, several
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researchers acknowledge the importance of investigating the environmental consequences of
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different household groups (e.g.5,7,10,11,18–25). Being highly influenced by socio-cultural and
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economic factors, as well as driven by individual preferences, household behavior and
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consequential purchase decisions are diverse, and “one-size-fits-all”-recommendations are likely
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to fail5,11,26. Therefore, understanding the variability of consumption patterns and associated
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environmental impacts is required for devising targeted environmental policies.
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Studies attempting to capture this lifestyle-induced variability usually combine household
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budget surveys (also called consumer expenditure surveys) with environmentally-extended
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input-output-models (EEIOM) and then assess the environmental impacts of different socio-
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economic cohorts3,5,9–11,17,20,22,23,26, or fit regression models with socio-economic characteristics
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as explanatory variables24,27. The findings of both (sometimes combined) approaches are very
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insightful, especially if the applied regression models aim at explaining the drivers of
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environmental consequences10,16,20,22,23,25,26. However, Girod and De Haan19 found that there
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might still be significant variability of behavior within investigated household types. This raises
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the question if the use of household segments that are pre-defined solely based on socio-
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economic characteristics might prevent recognition of important behavioral patterns by assuming
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all households within a segment behaving similarly. How could the support for policymaking be
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improved, especially in view of recent calls to increase the involvement of behavioral economics
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and psychology when deriving environmental measures4,12,28? Building upon the mentioned
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lifestyle-studies, we propose a new approach: Instead of pre-defined household segments, we
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suggest deriving clusters of households which are not only based on socio-economic aspects but
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also on real observed behavior. The proposed two-stage clustering allows for studying behavior-
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associated environmental impacts in the context of total consumption and is simultaneously able
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to capture non-linear effects. This approach thus allows for investigating the nature and
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implications of different household behavior in detail. The emergence of archetypes might then
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form a new information basis to derive environmental policies tailored to actual consumption
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patterns.
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The goal of this article is twofold: First, we will demonstrate the clustering of household
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behavior by applying our approach to the Swiss Household Budget Survey (HBS). Second, this
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application will result in ready-to-use consumption archetypes with associated environmental
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modeling for Switzerland. While the transferability of the Swiss archetypes to other countries is
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unclear, the proposed methods can definitely be applied to different expenditure surveys.
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2 Methodology
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Grouping households based on their characteristics and on their consumption behavior
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represents the core of our approach to studying household environmental impacts. Utilizing
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groups of households is also important because of the so-called “infrequency of purchase
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problem”22,25 that is encountered when working with expenditure surveys in which households
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participate only during a limited time period. To obtain a representative picture of a certain
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population group’s consumption behavior, in which infrequent or season-specific purchases
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average out, several similar households need to be clustered. In previous lifestyle-studies, this is
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implicitly solved by averaging over pre-defined household segments. In our approach (Figure 1),
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we first form groups of similarly-behaving households and then in a second step derive
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archetypes representing the average behavior of these groups. Finally, the environmental impacts
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of these archetypes will be assessed by means of a hybrid life cycle assessment (LCA) that
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sources environmental background data from both EEIOM and process-based life cycle
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inventory databases. With a hybrid LCA framework, known issues with EEIOM (e.g. the
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“product quality problem”7,9,18,20,22,25) can be partly overcome by using physical functional units,
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and EEIOM can complement missing data of process-based LCA7. Furthermore, the applied
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LCA-modeling will also allow for the computation of different impact assessment methods and
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not only carbon footprints or energy requirements as done in previous studies3,5,9,10,13,16–20,22,24,29.
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Thus, the chosen LCA-approach might also help to reveal potential burden shifts induced by
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planned environmental measures. Although suggested by several authors1,3,13,15, the application
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of hybrid LCA is – to our knowledge – rare. That said, it would still be possible to directly
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couple the archetypes with EEIOM or even more sophisticated macro-economic models as used
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e.g. in21,30.
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All computation steps will be described in more detail below (see also Figure 1).
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Figure 1. Simplified flow scheme providing a synopsis of the whole modeling approach. For
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each step, sections of the main article or the Supporting Information (SI) are indicated in which
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more detailed descriptions can be found.
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2.1 Consumption Data
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The main data source of this study is the Swiss HBS31 (2009-2011) which provides detailed
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information on the characteristics and consumption behavior for 9734 households. Households
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participating in the survey report on daily expenditures, income, and quantities of bought goods
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(e.g. for food) during one month. In addition, they also report on periodic expenditures (e.g.
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newspaper subscriptions), possession of durable goods and on extraordinary purchases or
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revenues in the last few months (e.g. buying a car within the last year). Data on household
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characteristics and on household members are also collected. For each household, the final
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dataset comprises statistics on 20 different durable goods, 8 income categories (plus 4 on
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aggregated levels), 19 household variables, 6 attributes for each household member and 356
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(plus 175 on aggregated levels) consumption categories classified based on the United Nations’
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“Classification of Individual Consumption according to Purpose” (COICOP)32. For consumption
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areas, purchased amounts in liters or kilograms are available for 92 categories (plus 14 on
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aggregated levels). Further information on the categorization and a list of survey attributes is
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provided in the SI.
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2.2 Pre-Processing of Consumption Data
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The present section describes how variables needed for the computations in 2.3 (pattern recognition) and 2.4 (LCA) were created based on the original HBS-data.
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Besides converting categorical variables to numerical data by a set of binary variables, several
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count-statistics were created to better compare household member information (see SI).
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Moreover, for some categories, more detailed information than specified in the HBS-data is
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required to apply LCA (cf. section 2.4). This particularly concerns housing-related categories
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and public transport demand. With regard to the first, especially tenants typically do not have full
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information on the exact breakdown of their utility bills into refuse and sewage collection, water
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supply, electricity, and heating. To impute this missing information, a modeling approach using
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K-Nearest-Neighbor-Regression33, Random-Forest-Regression34,35 and LASSO-Regression36
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was employed (see SI). The predicted data was then converted to quantities by means of price
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data37–40. These prices were retrieved as close as possible to the specific circumstances of each
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household by taking into account household type, location, and survey year. The pre-processed
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HBS-data was then validated against national statistics40–44 (cf. SI).
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The demand for public transport is a second issue. While kilometers driven by car can be
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estimated with liters of fuel purchased, HBS-information on public transport mainly relates to
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season tickets and travel card expenditures, thereby lacking information on effectively driven
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kilometers by public transport. Therefore, this demand was estimated for each household using
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data from the Swiss Mobility Microcensus 201045, which provides detailed information on the
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mobility behavior of the Swiss population (see SI).
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2.3 Pattern Recognition and Clustering of Households
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2.3.1 Preparation for Pattern Recognition
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Due to seasonality and storage effects, the survey month might bias the results of individual
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households in the HBS31. Consequently, the determination of household clusters with similar
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characteristics and behavior requires the dataset to be pre-processed and filtered for household
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features which make similar behavior identifiable independent of the month in which the survey
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took place.
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A flow scheme in SI-section 3.1 visualizes the following preparatory step. Each HBS-attribute
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was judged separately whether it shall be included for pattern recognition or not. Note that
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exclusion only concerns the pattern recognition steps in sections 2.3.2 and 2.3.3, while the
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deduction of archetypes in 2.3.4 will resort to all available attributes. Household characteristics
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including the count-statistics of 2.2, durable goods statistics, periodic expenditures and revenues
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were all considered in the pattern recognition. In contrast, daily purchase attributes were only
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included if they are bought on a regular basis and not stored for more than a month. Otherwise, it
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was appraised if the attribute’s inclusion within an aggregated level is reasonable (e.g. if an
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aggregated attribute such as “fruits” shall rather be included than “grapes” which are rarely
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bought from January to June in Switzerland).
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In a next step, all candidate attributes were checked for seasonality. The application of
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ANOVA46 and Kruskal-Wallis-tests47 revealed if the influence of the survey month is
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statistically significant. In case of statistically significance, the respective attribute was corrected
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for seasonality (see SI-section 3.1).
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The final dataset for pattern recognition comprises 157 attributes in total, thereof 85
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consumption and income categories.
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2.3.2 Self-Organizing Map (SOM)
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A two-tiered approach was applied to find patterns in the HBS-data based on which the
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households shall be grouped. In a first stage, a self-organizing map (SOM)48,49 pre-conditioned
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and reduced the dataset, which was then clustered in a second stage. Such two-step clusterings
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demonstrated to perform well and are robust even in the case of noisy and high-dimensional
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datasets50–53.
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The SOM was proposed by Kohonen48,49 and belongs to the class of unsupervised artificial
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neural networks. It generally combines vector quantization and non-linear projection to a lower-
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dimensional space; usually to a discrete 2D-lattice of neurons. Thereby, the SOM learns the
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patterns in the dataset in an ordered fashion and is thus able to preserve the topology of the data.
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This means that neighboring neurons in the map have similar characteristics. A prototype vector
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with the same dimension as the vectors of the input dataset is associated with each neuron.
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During the training phase of the SOM, this set of prototype vectors is optimized to become a
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representative substitute for the original dataset. The resulting map is thus a reduced, but still
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representative dataset that is not only smoothed with regard to noise but also facilitates the
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recognition of patterns, be it for subsequent clustering algorithms or visually for the human eye
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For the present study, the SOM was tuned by generating several SOMs with different
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parameters (number of neurons, arrangement of neurons, initial and final neighborhood radius,
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neighborhood function, and number of epochs) based on literature recommendations48,49,54–56 and
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then by choosing the model with a topographic error close to zero and the lowest quantization
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error56. The topographic error evaluates the order of the map (e.g. if it is twisted) and represents
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the share of samples in the input dataset for which the first and second closest neurons are not
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adjacent in the map56, while the quantization error judges the representativeness and thus the
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accuracy of the map56. The final map consists of 987 neurons arranged in a 21:47-planar-lattice
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(see SI for more tuning information and a short introduction to SOMs).
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In the second stage of pattern recognition, we apply clustering algorithms on top of the SOM
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to form groups of neurons. Since each clustering technique has its strengths and weaknesses, two
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well-known approaches, which differ in their basic principles, were tested and evaluated: K-
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Means57–59 and agglomerative clustering60,61. While k, the number of clusters to be built, was the
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only tuning parameter for K-Means, agglomerative clustering was run in different combinations
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of affinity metrics (e.g. Euclidean distance, L1-norm) and linkage criteria (Ward62 and average).
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The evaluation of clusters – and thus the “best” choice of clustering techniques and associated
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parameters – is not a trivial task if the ground truth is unknown63. For the present study, we
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mainly focused on two performance methods: Silhouette coefficients (S)64 and U-Matrix. S
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relates the distances between one point in a cluster and all other points in the same cluster to the
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distances from that point to all points in the second closest cluster. The so-called U-Matrix
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(unified distance matrix) is an important visualization of a SOM and supports clustering on top
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of the map. At the map position of each neuron, an U-Matrix depicts the sum of distances in the
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high-dimensional space between the prototype vector of the respective neuron and the prototype
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vectors of all adjacent neurons52,65,66. Large U-heights indicate that a neuron’s prototype vector is
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distant from others, while small U-heights are associated with prototypes that are surrounded by
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other vectors in the data space66. The U-Matrix thus suggests visually which neurons should be
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grouped together to form clusters.
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The quest for the best clustering was subdivided into two parts (see SI for details): First, a pre-
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selection of parameters within each approach was conducted mainly based on S. Afterwards, a
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detailed comparison of the two alternatives and fixing the number of clusters for both was based
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on the U-Matrix. For this, the cluster borders were projected on the U-Matrix and the clustering
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methods were judged by their ability to redraw the visible groupings of neurons in the U-Matrix.
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Additionally, two other criteria broadened the information basis for the final decision: ANOVA-
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tests were run for each attribute to obtain an impression if reasonable results are produced.
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Second, the number of households per cluster was determined to get some indication about the
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representativeness of the clusters. Considering all these criteria, an agglomerative clustering
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technique with Ward-linkage, which produces 34 clusters, was finally selected. Furthermore, the
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applied agglomerative clustering implementation67 allows for including connectivity constraints,
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meaning that only clusters which are adjacent on the map can be merged by the algorithm. This
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ability was seen as another advantage over K-Means.
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2.3.4 Deriving Consumption Archetypes
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Considering the statistical basis of the analyses of the Federal Statistical Office31, we assumed
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a cluster to be representative for a population’s group if at least 130 HBS-households are
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member of this cluster. Since not all clusters built in 2.3.3 comply with this criterion, some post-
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processing in the sense of manually merging clusters was needed. Indeed, this merging is also
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justified by the dendrogram in the SI which shows a blur between 34 and 24 clusters, indicating
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that some clusters are close to each other. Cutting the dendrogram at different positions might be
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reasonable in the presence of sub-clusters51 (see SI for more reasons). Therefore, starting with 34
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clusters, all clusters with less than 130 households were merged with adjacent clusters if these
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merges happen in the dendrogram between 24 and 34 clusters. This resulted in 26 fair clusters
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and 2 clusters with less than 130 households. These two clusters will continue to be part of the
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subsequent analysis, but they will be marked accordingly.
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The behavior-archetypes are now constituted by the centroids of the clusters. Note that the
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computation of the clusters’ centroids follows the averaging-procedure of the Federal Statistical
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Office and includes a representativeness-weight31. Furthermore, the attributes which were
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filtered out in 2.3.1 are now re-used and also entered the vector of the archetypes.
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The final modeling step comprised the coupling of the archetypes’ demands with detailed life
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cycle background data in order to quantify the environmental impacts of the archetypes’
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consumption behavior. The overall functional unit for the LCA was chosen to be one year of
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household consumption. The life cycle inventory data was extracted from three well-known and
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transparent databases in the following priority order: ecoinvent v3.368, Agribalyse v1.269, and
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EXIOBASE v2.270,71.
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The functional units of ecoinvent- and Agribalyse-activities require quantities instead of
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expenditures. While section 2.2 prepared housing- and public-transport-related categories for this
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purpose, conversions based on price data (e.g.37–39,72) or further information73 was necessary for
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other consumption areas. Fortunately, for almost all food categories, quantities are directly
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available in the HBS-dataset. The process models for processed food closely followed the
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modeling of Walker et al.74, but adjusted to Swiss conditions. Generally, we always attempted to
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adapt the process models as close as possible to the domestic conditions of Switzerland. For
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instance, Swiss market activities for food were constructed based on the import statistics
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provided by Scherer and Pfister75 and car fleets and energy mixes for heating technologies were
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based on national statistics40,76.
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purchaser-prices (HBS) to basic-prices (EXIOBASE) generally followed the suggestions of
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Finally, it needs mentioning that only environmental impacts directly associated with a certain
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household’s behavior were considered. For instance, only direct spending on education or health
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care and thus retraceable to a specific household were taken into account. This leads to an
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underestimation of impacts from “health” and “education” since the Swiss education system is
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largely financed by the government, while health expenses are usually covered by insurances
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whose premiums are not necessarily indicative of the health care utilization of households and
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thus of the effectively caused impacts. Furthermore, governmental consumption was not re-
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distributed to households as done in other studies77,78. Details of the LCA-modeling are disclosed
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in the SI.
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3.1 Drivers of Clustering
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The U-Matrix and the final clustering are presented in Figure 2. The two clusters not reaching
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full representativeness are named “OA” and “OB”, while all other clusters are labelled with
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random letters. The illustration of clusters on top of the SOM together with the distance
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information given in the U-Matrix also reveals relationships between clusters. For instance, “N”
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will be more similar to the adjacent “O” than to “J”.
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Figure 2. Top: U-Matrix of the SOM. Contours were inserted to improve visibility of distances.
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Note that a pixel in the map corresponds to the map position of a neuron; Bottom: Final
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clustering on top of the SOM. The clusters “OA” and “OB” are the clusters with less than 130
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households.
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Building upon the clustering selection procedure in 2.3.3, the quality of the final clustering was
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further analyzed by a visual appraisal of the 95%-confidence intervals of the clusters’ means of
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each attribute and by the ANOVA-tests (see section 2.3.3 and SI). These tests indicated that for
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all attributes there is at least one cluster significantly differing from the others (largest p-value:
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clustering. In addition, ANOVA provides a possibility to analyze the underlying drivers of the
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clustering process. An attribute’s test statistics (F-values) can be considered as a measure of
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“distinction power”. Among the top 20 distinctive attributes, there are, in particular, geographic
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variables and employment status, but also variables related to household size, consumption areas,
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and durable goods statistics. Attributes which are rated to be least important for forming the
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clusters are either variables which concern only few households (e.g. university fees) or
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consumption areas for which obviously less distinct patterns could be found (e.g. consumption of
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“coffee, tea and cocoa”). All results can be found in the SI.
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3.2 Individual Archetypes and their Interrelations
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A simplified description of all archetypes is available in Table 1. In this table, the clusters’
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centroids are categorized according to income and average number of persons per household.
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However, note that the clusters emerged from many different – including also non-socio-
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economic – attributes. The attributes presented in Table 1 and those used in the following
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analysis are thus just of an indicative nature meant to help better grasp the archetypes (see also
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additional details and results in the SI).
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Table 1. Simplified categorization of archetypes (clusters’ centroids) along the axes of income
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(vertical) and number of persons per household (horizontal). The numbers in parentheses show
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income in Swiss Francs per month and average numbers of persons per household respectively.
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Single-person households (1.1 - 1.3)
Small households (1.5 - 1.7)
Very high income (>19000)
Two-persons households
OB (around retirement)
High income (13000 - 19000)
Q (divorced middle-aged males)
Families (3.4 - 3.6)
Large families (>4)
S (selfemployed; some with primary school kids/ teenagers)
OA (homeowners with primary school kids/ teenagers)
L (with primary school kids/ teenagers)
C (rather young adults with babies)
J (homeowners with teenagers; "technophile")
K (SwissItalian; with primary school kids/ teenagers; homeowners)
F (SwissFrench; with teenagers; tenants)
A (homeowners with primary school kids)
P (SwissGerman; around retirement) X (SwissGerman; Zurich; around retirement, older than P)
Medium income (7800 - 9500)
O (SwissGerman; Zurich; well-mixed-notretired adults) R (Eastern Switzerland; well-mixed-notretired adults)
N (SwissGerman; Bern; well-mixed-notretired adults) Low income (< 5000)
Small families (2.4 - 3.2)
M (SwissFrench; around retirement)
Medium-high income (9500 - 13000)
Medium-low income (5000 - 7800)
D (young, unmarried; w/o children)
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G (North Western Switzerland; middle-aged adults w/o children)
Z (very young adults with babies)
U (Central Switzerland, well-mixed-notretired adults with children)
B (tenants with primary school kids/ teenagers; depend on other households; by trend: 1 adult and 2 children)
I (Swiss-French; well-mixed-notretired adults w/o children) W (SwissFrench; slightly older middleaged adults w/o children) E (Swiss-Italian; middle-aged adults w/o children)
Y (very old people)
T (Swiss-Italian; retired)
V (SwissGerman; retired)
H (old, widowed females)
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The environmental impacts of the individual archetypes are presented in Figure 3. Even
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though the applied LCA-modeling enables for the computation of all environmental indicators
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that are supported by the background life cycle inventory databases, only greenhouse gas
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emissions (GHG) according to IPCC 2013 (100a)79 and total endpoints of ReCiPe 2008 (H,A)80
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are discussed in the following (see SI for results of the Ecological Scarcity method81). Besides
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allowing for comparison to other studies, GHG have the highest priority in political discussions
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due to climate change, while the ReCiPe-endpoints shall help to calculate the overall
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environmental relevance of household consumption.
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In the scope of this article, only a few comparisons between some of the archetypes are
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presented. Thereby, selected examples in the aspects of income, household size, age structure,
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and footprint composition will be discussed. To support these comparisons, Figure 3 resumes
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information from Table 1 and shows some general characteristics of the archetypes such as
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income, number of persons and average age of adults and children.
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dashed line depicts the prevalence-weighted average (AVG). Indicative archetype characteristics
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the average age of adults/children; Bottom: Bar plots showing the composition of the
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environmental impacts on a per-capita basis. GHG (IPCC 2013, 100a) are shown in the left part
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of total footprints are given in parentheses to facilitate the comparison of top and bottom figures.
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In the upper part of Figure 3, a correlation between household income and total impacts can be
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observed. However, a few high-income households (e.g. C (“family with babies”), D (“young,
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unmarried couples”) and Q (“divorced, middle-aged males”)) are an exception to this. In addition
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The archetypes with the largest incomes (OA (“very high-income family”), OB (“very high-
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income retired couple”), S (“small families with self-employed persons”)) still spearhead the per-
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with babies”)) – including some with high-income (e.g. J (“family with teenagers”) or C) – can
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be found on the bottom of the per-capita-impact-ranking. In contrast, single-person households
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(e.g. H, N, O, and R) show low total annual impacts, while in a per-capita-perspective these
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archetypes move to the middle field. H (“old, widowed females”), together with V (“low-
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income, retired couple”) and Y (“low-income, very old couple”), also reveal a certain generation
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gap with regard to footprint composition: all three of these clusters – which are also neighbors in
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higher housing energy and health impacts compared to other archetypes. This is for instance in
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contrast with the “young” D archetype, which exhibits high transport, but low housing, impacts.
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total emissions and footprint compositions. O and R are adjacent in the SOM and both are single-
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person households with similar age and income range. However, archetype O is related to urban
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households (Zurich), while R has its origin in the more rural Eastern Switzerland. R’s mobility
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impacts are higher on account of larger emissions from car-driven distances. This is, however,
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partly compensated by O’s large demand for air travel and taxi rides. Furthermore, O has larger
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there is one especially important difference between the two clusters: J-households are
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The analysis of the archetypes can help policymakers in identifying target groups. For
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instance, OA and OB have large footprints and have money available to invest in
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environmentally beneficial technologies to cover e.g. their transport and housing demand.
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prevalent. Consequently, it is also important to look at the overall picture and investigate how the
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different archetypes contribute to cumulative impacts; which is in the case of OA and OB
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together less than 2.5%. Since HBS-data can be assumed to be representative for Switzerland, we
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also illustrated by the size of the markers in the scatterplots of Figure 3. The upper part of
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Figure 4 depicts the prevalence-weighted contributions of both the archetypes and the
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consumption areas. The lower part of Figure 4 then relates the archetypes’ prevalence-weighted
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total impact shares to their per-capita-emissions in a simplified attempt to group the archetypes
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based on the prospects to target them. It becomes apparent that the three family-archetypes A, J
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and L, which are ranked 1st, 5th and 6th by frequency, are together responsible for about 27% of
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total impacts. While the per-capita-emissions are rather low for A and J, their high contribution
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abundance. In contrast, L is not only frequent, but also causes large per-capita and total
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footprints. These small, high-income and home-owning families with teenagers could be an
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interesting target group for reducing consumption impacts. However, this is just one example
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since L’s contribution is about 8% of total emissions and further archetypes need to be targeted
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as well. Analyzing the main consumption areas in more detail, V (“low-income, retired couple”)
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and D (“young couple”) appear to be important. Being among the three archetypes with largest
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per-capita emissions for air travel and car trips, D has particularly large transport impacts and is
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also responsible for high emissions in the category “restaurants and hotels”. In contrast, V shows
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high health and housing impacts in addition to large per-capita food emissions. However, while
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the lower part of Figure 4 classifies D as a “promising target”, V seems to be a borderline case
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which requires more careful consideration.
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Figure 4. Top: Prevalence-weighted contributions of the archetypes and main consumption areas
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to total environmental impacts as well as prevalence-weighted contributions of archetypes and
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consumption-subcategories within the main consumption areas (ordered by magnitude of
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contribution). Except for the Swiss total, only contributions with a cumulative effect of about
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50% are displayed. Bottom: per-capita emissions in relation to prevalence-weighted
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contributions to total impacts. The divisive horizontal and vertical lines correspond to the
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red. [Non-dur gds.: Non-durable household goods; Pkg. holiday: Package holiday; SpS: Sporting
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The second perspective provided in Figure 4 (upper) identifies – just as many previous
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studies1,3,7,14–16 – food, housing and transport as the most important consumption categories.
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While transport and housing each account for about 25% of total GHG emissions, transport takes
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the lead in ReCiPe-endpoints with 24%, closely followed by food and housing (each 21%).
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Thereby, transport is clearly dominated by car trips (about 90%) and housing by energy use
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(about 85%). For food, dairy products (especially semi-hard/hard cheese) and meat (mainly beef)
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The presented archetypes were formed based on behavior and characteristics of households.
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Thereby, the goal of our approach was to provide the most generalized basis for further
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investigations. Yet, within these post-analyses – such as the application of LCA with a specific
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environmental indicator – some clusters become seemingly very similar. Depending on the
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policy goals, it may thus be reasonable to further group the archetypes according to their
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Another limitation of this study pertains to the underreporting in the HBS. Although
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participating households are closely supervised and receive advice from specialists82, previous
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studies that have made use of consumer expenditure surveys revealed that underreporting is a
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common issue3,22,29. This could also explain the slightly lower total carbon footprint assessed
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here in comparison to the economy-wide study of Jungbluth et al.77
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possible to Swiss conditions. Still, LCA-modeling always requires assumptions, average mixes
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and simplifications that might affect the final results. Hereby, the uncertainties induced by the
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conversion of expenditures to functional units via price data, the uncertainties arising from
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converting HBS-purchaser-prices to EXIOBASE-basic-prices3,9,10,29, and the limited number of
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biosphere flows in EXIOBASE need special mentioning. The latter is discussed in the SI and
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may lead to a slight under-accounting of ReCiPe-endpoints. Follow-up research aims at
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The proposed archetype-approach is meant to deliver important insights into households’
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consumption behavior for policymakers to derive and prioritize targeted measures. In this
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context, our approach can also be used for identifying drivers of environmental impacts as done
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in previous studies10,16,20,22,25,26. To demonstrate this application, a univariate correlation analysis
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between environmental impacts and main household characteristics is presented in the SI. The
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computation of such correlations, as well as studying the drivers for clustering and the
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prevalence-weighted analyses, help to capture the big picture and support thus the identification
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of general tendencies, hotspots and potential target groups of households. However, since the
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overall trends do not necessarily apply to particular archetypes, the deduction of targeted actions
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requires an in-depth understanding of the target groups and should thus be done on the basis of
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individual archetypes. For this, the archetype-approach offers a predestined basis by allowing for
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backtracking environmental impacts to the living conditions of real households and observable
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consumption behavior.
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While this study aimed to provide the basis for identifying strategies, the specific analyses
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need to be done by local environmental policymakers according to their political agendas.
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Thereby, they could follow the comprehensive framework proposed by Schanes et al.4 and also
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consider suggestions from related research in behavioral economics and psychology28. The input
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from these disciplines, which aim to understand motivational factors and cognitive biases, could
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provide support to go even beyond “conventional” measures, such as taxes, regulations or
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subsidies, and allow for profiling households. Based on this, personalized messages and
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measures could be formulated which directly address different consumer groups in order to
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consumption patterns. But before investigating how people could be motivated to lower their
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environmental impacts, it is of high importance to know which archetypes prevail in the local
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policymakers’ sphere of influence. The prevalence-weighted analyses illustrates a first attempt in
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this direction at a national level, but the archetypes can further be used as a basis for a
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regionalized model. In follow-up research, the archetypes will be assigned to real households
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based on the national census within a probabilistic-classification approach. In addition, this use
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of archetypes will simultaneously be combined with other nationwide bottom-up models such as
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the building energy model of Buffat et al.83 and agent-based mobility models as used by Saner et
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al.84. The final model will estimate a realistic environmental profile for each real household in
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Switzerland and thus provide information for analyses on any desired regional scale.
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The manuscript was written through contributions of all authors. All authors have given approval
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We would like to thank Christie Walker, Stephan Pfister and Adrian Haas for their important
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inputs and Jonas Müller and Annina Brupbacher for their assistance. Our thanks also go to the
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Federal Statistical Office, Kjartan Steen-Olsen and Richard Wood for their support. This
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research project is part of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research SCCER Mobility
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