Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS): Household Screener Survey, 1979-1980, Household Characteristics and Annualized Consumption. Shoppers Guide

摘要

This document is intended to serve as a general introduction to the data from the Household Screener Survey of the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) which is available to the public on machine-readable magnetic tape. The document includes an overview of the RECS and the Household Screener Survey, brief descriptions of each of the files included on the tape, and a list of the variables in the main data set. Appended to this document are copies of the fieldwork instruments used in the Household Screener Survey. The RECS data tapes are also accompanied by a Users' Guide which contains detailed specifications for the tape and each of the data files.