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Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys (2012) / Chapter Skim
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4 Residential Energy Consumption Survey Program History and Design
Pages 35-38

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... Energy Information Administration (EIA) is able to benefit from the vast experience of the federal statistical system and of other research organizations with nationwide household data collections.
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... 1993 7,111 A new multistage area probability sample was developed based on the 1990 decennial census. The rotating panel component was discontinued.
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... Box 4-1 shows the topics included on the RECS household survey. For more information on the RECS data collection instruments, including the full list of questions included in each of the questionnaires, see http://205.254.135.7/consumption/residential/ surveyforms.cfm [December 2011]
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... Beginning with the 1997 data collection, the survey was moved to computer-assisted personal interviewing. The supplier survey was a mail survey before 2009, when the web became the primary mode of data collection.
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Key Terms

  • sample design
  • census division
  • residential energy
  • housing units
  • housing unit

  • energy information
  • supplier survey
  • consumption survey
  • sampling frame
  • information administration

  • recs data
  • energy supplier
  • sequence file
  • developed based
  • geographic detail

  • delivery sequence
  • survey sample
  • household energy
  • recs sample
  • usps delivery

  • mail survey
  • enabled eia
  • recs involves
  • physical characteristics
  • household survey

  • unit frame
  • current design
  • involves randomly
  • populous states
  • data collections


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