Crown is providing support to EIA’s Office of Energy Statistics (OES) to manage all survey and data collection activities associated with the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). The EIA RECS program collects and disseminates information about energy usage within the residential sector. Crown has managed the 2015, 2020 and currently the 2024 RECS Household Survey. Crown is responsible for sample design, instrument development, data collection, data processing, and a final survey report. RECS has been a nationwide, benchmark data collection that supports EIA’s energy statistics and analysis programs on residential energy use. For the 2020 RECS, Crown helped EIA initiate a benchmark, data program for household energy use in all 50 states and the District of Columbia (DC).
The 2020 data collection included over 3,000 interviews, and over 3,000 web and mail surveys. The survey sample was approximately 20K residential households.
Crown developed a dynamic web instrument and conducted numerous rounds of cognitive interviewing, crowdsourcing, and prepared a Spanish-language version of the instrument.
In addition, Crown supported the EIA Rental Agent and Multi-Housing Surveys – which were a subset of the RECS frame.
To support the overall RECS program, Crown has performed the following functions: Survey Frame and Sample Development; Development of contact materials and web/paper instruments; Data collection; Case Management; respondent incentive programs; nonresponse follow-up; data imputation and estimation; statistical and replicated weighting; final analysis reporting.
Benefit to EIA: EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) program is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating timely, detailed information about how energy is being used within the residential sector of the economy. This includes data on the fuels used in homes, equipment and appliance stocks, household behaviors associated with energy use, and total and disaggregated consumption and expenditures. The results are used for program evaluation and planning; to track product adoption and research emerging markets; to analyze energy use patterns and cost burdens for various household subpopulations; and to project future energy needs in the sector. RECS data and analysis are disseminated across a variety of platforms for novice, intermediate, and expert data users and include: data tables, a microdata file, detailed documentation, summary reports, featured articles, conference presentations, webinars, and social media campaigns.
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- Office of Energy Statistics, Energy Information Administration