Technical documentation for the Nonresidential-Buildings Energy-Consumption Survey: 1979-1980, building characteristics, energy end use and fuel oil tank data, public use data tapes. Users' guide

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:5328182

This document provides basic information and technical specifications necessary for using the machine-readable magnetic tapes containing the Building Characteristics, Energy End Use and Fuel Oil Tank data from the 1979-1980 Nonresidential Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (NBECS). Included in this document are a brief overview of the NBECS, technical specifications for reading the tapes and descriptions of the contents of each of the files contained on the tape. The remaining sections are devoted to technical topics of special interest to users of the data. Appended to this document are copies of the questionnaire used in the survey, a listing of the contents of the SPSS labels file, COBOL file description and TPL codebook. The results of the NBECS have been reported in a series of publications which are available to the public. A list of the reports currently available is included here as Appendix H.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Consumption Data System
• OSTI ID: 5328182
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0327; ON: DE82012523
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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