Title: Commercial buildings energy consumption survey. Public use data
diskettes [electronic resource]
- Distribution Media: 5 1/4" floppy diskettes
- SuDoc Number: E3.43/2-4
Abstract: This data collection contains data from the 1989 and 1992 Commercial
Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). Previous surveys were conducted in
1979, 1983 and 1986 under the name Nonresidential Buildings Energy Consumption
Survey. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) designed the CBECS to provide
information concerning building characteristics and energy consumption for buildings
in the commercial sector. The CBECS data files contain data concerning commercial
building characteristics and annualized energy consumption and expenditures for these
buildings.
Energy sources annualized for these surveys are electricity, natural gas,
fuel oil, district steam, district hot water, and district chilled water. Also
included on the survey data files are temperature variables. All files contain
data from 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.
Extent of Collection: The distribution media contained DOS ASCII documentation
files, DOS compressed data files, and a DOS decompression program (or self-extracting
compressed files).
Data Conversion:
Extraneous ASCII characters were removed from the ASCII documentation
files. These "fixed" files were saved with .TXT file extensions. SAS
library information was cut from the ASCII documentation and are available
as separate ASCII text files. The data files were decompressed with DOS ARCE
and are available in their original ASCII (1989 and 1992) and
dBase (1992) formats. Extraneous ASCII characters were removed from the
1989 ASCII CSV data files. These files are saved as 1989 "fixed"
files. The 1992 dBase data files were converted to ASCII CSV format. For more
information about data conversion, see
File Processing and Quality Control.
Minimum Software Requirements: (1) Software capable of reading ASCII
text files. (2) Statistical or database software capable of importing ASCII
CSV or dBase files.
- ASCII text - text files can be read by most file viewers and
word processing software.
- ASCII data - text data files can be imported into most
statistical and database software. Data values may or may not
use separators. Common separators are commas (ASCII CSV), tabs
or spaces.
Files: DOS ASCII files contain carriage return characters. ASCII files
do not contain cariage return characters. For information about downloading
these files, see Downloading Tips.
Original Diskette Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
Decompressed Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
Processed Files
(Name-Type-Format) |
|
CBECS89.DOC
- 1989 documentation - DOS ASCII |
|
CBECS89.TXT
- "fixed" 1989 documentation - ASCII |
|
89CBECSSAS.TXT
- 1989 SAS definitions - ASCII |
[DIRECTORY]
ARCE.COM
- decompression program - DOS
CBECS89.A??
- 1989 compressed data files - DOS |
[DIRECTORY]
CBECS89.F??
- 1989 data files - DOS ASCII CSV |
[DIRECTORY]
CBECS89F??.CSV
- "fixed" 1989 data files - ASCII CSV |
|
README.DOS
- 1992 instructions - DOS ASCII |
|
README.TXT
- "fixed" 1992 instructions - ASCII |
[DIRECTORY]
BC92*.EXE
- 1992 compressed documentation and data files - DOS self extracting |
BC92TECH.DOS
- 1992 documentation - DOS ASCII |
BC92TECH.TXT
- "fixed" 1992 documentation - ASCII |
|
92CBECSSAS.TXT
- 1992 SAS definitions - ASCII |
[DIRECTORY]
BC92*.TXT
- 1992 data files - DOS ASCII
BC92*.DBF
- 1992 data files - DOS DBF |
[DIRECTORY]
BC92*.CSV
- 1992 data files - ASCII CSV |
Related Publications:
Bibliographic Citation: U.S. Department of Energy. COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS CONSUMPTION
SURVEY: PUBLIC USE DISKETTES, 1992 and 1994 [Computer file]. Washington, DC: Energy
Information Administration [producer], 1992 and 1994. Superintendent of Documents, U.S.
Government Printing Office [distributor], 1992 and 1994.
