Pay-as-you-go liquefied petroleum gas supports sustainable clean cooking in Kenyan informal urban settlement during COVID-19 lockdown

  1. Matthew Shupler
  2. Mark O'Keefe
  3. Elisa Puzzolo
  4. Emily Nix
  5. Rachel Anderson de Cuevas
  6. James Mwitari
  7. Arthur Gohole
  8. Edna Sang
  9. Iva Čukić
  10. Diana Menya
  11. Daniel Pope

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116769
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: All statistical analyses were completed in R version 3.5.1.39 Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the University of Liverpool Central Ethics Committee, United Kingdom.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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    Strengths and Limitations: With a sample of 415 residential PayGo Energy customers, this study was powered to examine cooking behaviours before and during a nationwide lockdown in Kenya. As customers were recruited primarily through door-to-door advertising, PayGo Energy staff members identifying a new customer (e.g. while walking through the community) and customer referrals, PAYG LPG customers may not be representative of the general population of the informal settlement. However, a comparison of available SES characteristics of PAYG LPG households with that of a random sample from the same community revealed no significant differences in female occupation and household education levels (Table S3). Further, as individuals from the community in Eldoret had a higher SES than PayGo Energy customers living in the informal settlement in Nairobi, a 75% decline in days per month using full cylinder LPG in Eldoret signals that household SES likely does not explain differences in LPG usage patterns that occurred between PAYG LPG and full cylinder LPG users in Mukuru kwa Reuben during lockdown. As per capita LPG consumption varies according to the level of urbanicity,41 PAYG LPG usage in an urban informal settlement may not manifest in peri-urban/rural communities due to differences in availability of LPG refills (e.g. frequency of LPG cylinder deliveries), baseline familiarity with LPG among residents and sociocultural barriers.31,50 Moreover, home delivery of LPG refills in peri-ur...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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