Residential Databases Variables

General

  • Number of households

  • Record number

  • Record weight

Air Conditioning

  • Have air conditioning equip

Central

  • Central air conditioning

  • Age of central A/C equip

Room Units

  • Window/wall air conditioner

  • Number of w/w A/C units

  • Age of most used A/C unit

Secondary Heating Equipment and Fuel

  • First aux heating equipment

Building Structure

  • Type of living quarters

  • Number of bedrooms

  • Number of complete baths

  • Total sq ft heated area

  • Total sq ft unheated area

  • Total sq ft heated and unheated

  • Year home built

  • Housing unit type

  • Number of housing units in building

  • Number of floors in building

  • Stories in housing unit

Clothes Dryer

  • Use clothes dryer

  • Clothes dryer fuel

Clothes Washer

  • Use clothes washer

Cooking

  • Fuel used for cooking

Demographics

  • Family unit description

  • Children lt 6 years old

  • Children gt=b6 & & lt 12 years

  • Children gt=b12 & lt 19 years

  • Dwelling owned or rented

Efficiency (Optional)

  • Technical Potential (bulding and end uses)

  • Achievable Potential (bulding and end uses)

  • Efficiency Index (bulding and end uses)

Electricity Use

  • Use electric for heating home

  • Who pays elec for home heat

  • Uses electric for hot water

  • Who pays elec for hot wtr

  • Uses electric for cooking

  • Who pays elec for cooking

  • Uses electric for A/C

  • Who pays elec for A/C

  • Use elec for lts & appliance

  • Kilowatt hours

  • kWh/square foot

  • Space heating kWh

  • Water heating kWh

  • Air Conditioning kWh

  • Refrigerator kWh

  • Freezer kWh

  • Cooking kWh

  • Dishwasher kWh

  • Clothes dryer kWh

  • Lighting kWh

Freezers

  • Use a separate freezer

  • Number of separate freezers

Fuel Oil Use/Expenditures

  • Household uses fuel oil

  • Fo annual use in thousand Btu

  • Fuel oil use per square foot

  • Fo space heat use est 1000 Btu

  • Fo water heat use est 1000 Btu

  • Fuel oil appl use est 1000 Btu

Geographic Information (Varies by Database)

  • Varies by Database

Heat Systems

  • Main home heating fuel

  • Age of main heating equip

  • Main home heating equipment

Hourly Loads - electric, natural gas and oil (Optional)

  • Daytype 24-hour Load Profiles

    • Week day, week end day and peak day

    • For each month

    • By end use

  • 8760 hourly loads (Optional)

    • End use

    • Whole building

Income

  • Family income last 12 mos

Kerosine Use and Expenditure

  • Household uses kerosene

  • Kero space heat use est in t

  • Kero water heat use est in t

  • Pct kero bill for oth purp

Liquefied Petrolem Gas Use

  • Household uses LPG

  • LPG space heat use est in th

  • LPG appl use est in thousands

Natural Gas Use and Expenditures

  • Household uses utility gas

  • Use ugas for heating home

  • Uses ugas for hot water

  • Uses ugas for cooking inside

  • Use ugas for other appliances

  • Ccfs (hundred cubic ft)

  • Ug annual use in thousand Btu

  • Natural gas use per square foot

  • Nat gas space heat use est

  • Nat gas wat ht use est in th

  • Nat gas space heat use est

  • Nat gas water heat use est

Other End Use equipment

  • Use automatic dishwasher

Refrigerators

  • Number of refrigerators

  • Age of main refrigerator

Water Heating

  • Main water heating fuel

  • Age of hot water heater

Weather

  • Cooling dd to base 65

  • Heating dd to base 65