Nonresidential Buildings Energy Consumption Survey: 1986 Public Use Data Diskettes. Technical Documentation

摘要

Contains the technical documentation for the data set based on the 1986 Nonresidential Buildings Energy Consumption Surveys (NBECS), the national sample survey of nonresidential buildings and their energy suppliers conducted by the Energy Information Administration. The NBECS data files contain data concerning commercial building characteristics and annualized energy consumption and expenditures. Energy sources annualized for these surveys are electricity, natural gas, fuel oil, propane, district steam, district hot water, and district chilled water. Data are from 6,072 sampled buildings drawn from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The smallest unit of analysis on these files is the individual building. However, the finest geographic identification included is Census division.