Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS): National Interim Energy Consumption Survey, 1978-1979, Household Monthly Energy Consumption and Expenditures. Users Guide

摘要

This document provides technical specifications and basic information necessary for the appropriate use of the machine-readable magnetic tapes containing data from the National interim energy consumption survey, Household monthly energy consumption and expenditures records of the residential energy consumption survey. Included in this document are an overview of the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) effort as a whole and a brief description of this administration of the RECS, the National interim energy consumption survey. The next section contains technical specifications for reading the tapes and descriptions of the contents of each of the files contained on the tape. The remaining four sections are devoted to technical topics of special interest to users of the data. Appended to this document are a copy of the fuel suppliers record forms used in the collection of the data and an illustrative listing of the contents of one of the SPSS labels files.