Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Survey, 1991: Public Use Data

<p>The Residential Energy Consumption Surveys were designed by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) to provide information concerning energy consumption within the residential sector. Information about a housing unit is collected through personal interviews with adult residents of a representative national sample of households. Questions are asked about energy consumption of household appliances, energy use qualities of structural improvements such as heating and air conditioning, windows and doors, insulation as well as the time and circumstances of their installation. Data about actual energy consumption (excluding transportation fuel) are obtained from fuel records maintained by the households’ fuel suppliers. Each record in the survey represents a single household. The finest geographic identification available on each household record is Census division. Sample households from Alaska and Hawaii were removed from the public use file. Therefore, these data represent only the contiguous United States.</p>