Estimating household energy expenditures in the Phase I Comprehensive Human Resources Data System. Task 11 final report

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5020590· OSTI ID:5020590

King, J. A.

This report presents results of revising the electricity and piped-gas expenditures imputed to households on the 1974 CHRDS file with equations estimated from the WCMS 1975 Household Energy Survey. In section II the revised expenditures are shown to be superior to the original CHRDS expenditures in many respects. The adjustment factors necessary to calibrate the expenditures with state-by-state control data were generally smaller than those previously required, and, more importantly, the variations in expenditures by different characteristics, including income, age of head, race of head, family size, and tenure were much more reasonable than the original expenditures when assessed against the 1972--1973 Consumer Expenditure Survey data. Without an absolute standard of the ''true'' energy expenditures of the U.S. population by which to assess the CHRDS file, however, it is impossible to conclude that the CHRDS revised electricity and piped-gas expenditures reflect accurately the energy expenditures of different subgroups of the population. There is still some question as to the precise level of the energy expenditures because of unresolved discrepancies between the WCMS 1975 Energy Survey, the 1972--1973 Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the industry control data for the residential sector. It is also extremely unlikely that the revised expenditures will reflect accurately variations for subgroups on a state-by-state basis,because of the omission of some important determinants of energy consumption, such as the presence of air conditioning and insulation characteristics, which affect differences by state, although a detailed assessment of the CHRDS expenditures by state is impossible because of the lack of any comparison data.

• Research Organization: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, D.C. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5020590
• Report Number(s): HCP/I60901-01
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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