Analytic Methodologies for Program Evaluation for the Department of Energy Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program, Task B. Final Report

摘要

This report presents three diagnostic tools intended as management aids in DOE's oversite of the Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). A need for such tools was demonstrated during the course of a 20 state monitoring effort conducted for WAP in 1982 by the Arawak Consulting Corporation. At the conclusion of the project, the monitors proposed that some methodologies for comparing the performance of local agencies should be developed. All three of these tools which were developed utilize the same data elements for the basis for analysis: Number of units weatherized; amount of funds expended on installed weatherization materials; and subgrantee labor costs. These three data elements can be aggregated and analyzed from several different viewpoints and levels of complexity; the diagnostic tools themselves are presented in an ascending order of complexity. For the purpose of explication, the assumption is made that a weatherization program evaluation is being performed. This implies that all data collected and analyzed is based upon a subgrantees' total weatherization effort, whatever the funding source. The discussion of each tool includes a presentation of its explanatory scope, its data requirements, the tool's predictive limitations, and the probable management uses for each. (ERA citation 10:044538)