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

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:5485474

King, J A

Revised electricity and piped gas expenditures imputed to households on the 1974 CHRDS file with equations estimated from the WCMS 1975 Household Energy Survey are presented as superior to the original CHRDS expenditures. 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 1972-73 Consumer Expenditure Survey data. Without an absolute standard of the true energy expenditures of the US 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.

• Research Organization: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Washington, DC (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-77EI08544
• OSTI ID: 5485474
• Report Number(s): DOE/EI/08544-T1; ON: DE84004942
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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