Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) have released ACCESS 2018 survey datasets covering more than 9,000 households from 756 villages in 54 districts collecting about 2.5 million data points. The dataset can be downloaded from Harvard Dataverse.

The Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity – Survey of States (ACCESS), India’s largest multidimensional energy access survey, is conducted across six of the major energy-access-deprived states in the country – Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

The results from the first round of the study, ACCESS 2015, highlighted the need to look beyond connections to enable rural India’s access to modern forms of energy. In 2018, we revisited the households to understand the changes in their energy access situation over the last three years, and to study the impact of government policies during this period. It provides a first-of-its-kind multi-dimensional evaluation of the state of energy access in India and highlights the multiple nuances associated with electricity access, such as the duration of supply, quality, reliability, affordability and even the legal status of electricity connections.

To learn more about the data, see the 2018 report by CEEW, “Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity – Survey of States (ACCESS)”.

The data can be freely used for non-commercial purposes. To do so, please include a complete citation of the article and the dataset.

If you use the longitudinal (panel) dataset: please include the two citations below.

To cite the 2018 dataset: Mani, Sunil; Shahidi, Tauseef; Patnaik, Sasmita; Jain, Abhishek; Tripathi, Saurabh; Ganesan, Karthik; Aklin, Michaël; Urpelainen, Johannes; Chindarkar, Namrata; Council on Energy, Environment and Water; Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy; National University of Singapore. Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India 2018 (ACCESS 2018).

To cite the 2015 dataset: Aklin, Michaël; Cheng, Chao-yo; Ganesan, Karthik; Jain, Abhishek; Urpelainen, Johannes; Council on Energy, Environment and Water. Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States in India (ACCESS). 2016. Harvard Dataverse, V1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0NV9LF.

To cite the article that introduces the 2015 dataset: Aklin, Michaël, Chao-yo Cheng, Johannes Urpelainen, Karthik Ganesan, and Abhishek Jain. 2016. “Factors Affecting Household Satisfaction with Electricity Supply in Rural India.” Nature Energy 1(16170). DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.170. (http://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy2016170)

The data collection for this round was supported by Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation and National University of Singapore.

We acknowledge the leadership and core team of CEEW, Lee Kuan Yew School and ISEP who directed this study and also the researchers including, but not limited to, Abhishek Jain, Sudatta Ray, Karthik Ganesan, Michaël Aklin, Chao-Yo Cheng, Sunil Mani, Namrata Ravindra Chindarkar, Saurabh Tripathi, Sasmita Patnaik, and Tauseef Shahidi.