Pacific Northwest Residential Energy Consumption Survey: Response Analysis Final Report

摘要

The 1983 survey achieved a response rate of 85.4% among the eligible survey population and a completion rate of 77.4%. Both response indicators were slightly lower than desired because of the high joint occurrence of selection into the sample of ineligible units (8.8%) and units that could not be contacted during the field period (5.5%). Actual refusal of eligible households to participate in the survey was only 8.7%. Both response and nonresponse varied across geographic regions. Geographic areas in which sampled units included households from relatively densely populated areas showed increased nonresponse/decreased response. Further analyses of the data revealed that response rates were lowest in MRRs located in urban areas (80.9%), followed by MRRs situated in suburban locations (SMSA remainder - 82.7%) and highest on MRRs located in the more rural locations (Non-SMSA - 87.5%). Other analyses yielded few interesting results. The relatively low response rate achieved in Western Oregon (77.0%) was quite surprising. Although much of this decrement may be explained by employing the urban refusal mechanism described before, still some differences in response rate will be observed. Ramaining differences will require an alternate explanation that lies beyond the scope of the present analysis. (ERA citation 10:000854)