Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys (2012) / Chapter Skim
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The RECS is a household survey with a more conventional -- albeit also challenging -- data collection approach. Both surveys collect data about the complex, highly technical topic of energy consumption and its determinants, and both are the surveys of record on this topic for researchers and policy makers in the United States.
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The panel's main recommendations, which are briefly discussed below, focus on addressing the two priority areas mentioned, in the context of additional important considerations for the surveys, such as data quality and costs. The main recommendations, some of which involve major changes to the survey designs, are described first, followed by additional recommendations that address more specific, technical aspects of the data collections.
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Recommendation CBECS-4: EIA should investigate strategies for re leasing the CBECS data faster, for example, by revising the editing pro cedures or by completing the editing for a subset of the variables and releasing these data prior to completing the editing for the full data set. CBECS Data Gaps The current CBECS sample design is best suited for producing descriptive statistics for larger geographical divisions, such as the entire country or census division levels.
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Recommendation CBECS-2: EIA should consider integrating a longitudinal element into the CBECS sample design to obtain better estimates of change. Recommendation CBECS-7: EIA should prepare for the more widespread availability of smart meter data in the future by evaluating potential uses of such data, strategies for collecting them, and ways of addressing new confidentiality challenges.
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Recommendation CBECS-13: EIA should conduct an ongoing evalu ation of administrative records as potential sources for substantive data for the CBECS. To address challenges associated with collecting highly technical information from respondents who are not necessarily experts on topics such as building characteristic and energy consumption, EIA should consider evaluating how involving professional energy auditors in the data collection process would affect costs and data quality.
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Recommendation RECS-3: Informed by a methodological research program, EIA should begin developing procedures for a multimode approach and should begin moving some of the RECS data collection to the web. Recommendation RECS-4: EIA should investigate strategies for re leasing the RECS data faster, for example, by revising the editing pro cedures or by completing the editing for a subset of the variables and releasing these data prior to completing the editing for the full data set.
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Recommendation RECS-5: As part of its efforts to address the needs of data users, EIA should make it a priority to identify opportunities for increasing the sample size in order to enable the release of more of the RECS data that are currently being collected. Recommendation RECS-6: EIA should consider establishing a re search data center or evaluate the option of using an existing RDC maintained by another organization to provide data users with secure access to RECS data that are currently not publicly released.
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Postal Service delivery sequence file. The panel also recommends several changes to the RECS data collection procedures that are aimed at increasing efficiency and overcoming some of the challenges associated with collecting highly technical information from respondents who may find some of the questions challenging.
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Recommendation RECS-17: Interviewer debriefings should become an integral part of the RECS data collection process in order to iden tify problems with the questionnaires and procedures and to serve as a source of ideas for increased efficiencies. A STATE-OF-THE-ART ENERGY CONSUMPTION DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM The panel's recommendations in this report are based on a careful balance between what the data needs are and what is most realistic to implement in the short term.
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10 EFFECTIVE TRACKING OF BUILDING ENERGY USE consider serving as the coordinator or data center for research on a number of special topics or special populations or performing additional functions that involve more active dissemination and closer collaboration with the research community.
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