The 18 Public Use Data files of the 1992 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) data are available in ASCII (i.e. CE92F01T.TXT) and dBASE (CE92F01D.DBF) formats. These files contain the 1992 CBECS basic data including building characteristics, energy consumption and expenditures, and temperature data. The files can be accessed below. The data have been compressed into zip files with an extension of zip. After downloading the files, they should be placed in a separate directory and expanded by using a pkunzip program (also available below).

Readme.TXT     Information on the 1992 CBECS Public Use Data


C920105T.ZIP and C920105D.ZIP contain the following files:

     File 1:   CE92F01T.TXT  General Building Information
               Record Length: 251 bytes

     File 2:   CE92F02T.TXT  Building Activity, Building Ownership and  
               Occupancy
               Record Length: 245 bytes

     File 3:   CE92F03T.TXT  Operating Hours and Weather
               Record Length: 229 bytes

     File 4:   CE92F04T.TXT  Heating and Cooling Equipment and
               Distribution
               Record Length: 222 bytes

     File 5:   CE92F05T.TXT  End Uses of Major Energy Sources
               Record Length: 175 bytes
			   
C920610T.ZIP and C920610D.ZIP contain the following files:  

     File 6:   CE92F06T.TXT  Minor Energy Sources, Refrigeration 
               and Water Heating Equipment, Electricity Generation,
               and Multibuilding Facilities
               Record Length: 143 bytes

     File 7:   CE92F07T.TXT  Lighting Equipment and Conservation Features 
               Record Length: 247 bytes

     File 8:   CE92F08T.TXT Imputation Flags for Energy Sources and End Uses
               Record Length: 240 bytes

     File 9:   CE92F09T.TXT Imputation Flags for Heatieating, Cooling,
               Refrigeration and Water Heating Equipment and Electricity
               Generation
               Record Length: 248 bytes

     File 10:  CE92F10T.TXT  Imputation Flags for General Information Building
               Activity, Operating Hours
               Record Length: 252 bytes

C921115T.ZIP and C921115D.ZIP contain the following files:  

     File 11:  CE92F11T.TXT Imputation Flags for Special Technologies,
               Lighting Equipment, Conservation
               Record Length: 246 bytes

     File 12:  CE92F12T.TXT  Electricity and Demand-Side Management
               Record Length: 189 bytes

     File 13:  CE92F13T.TXT Natural Gas
               Record Length: 217 bytes

     File 14:  CE92F14T.TXT Fuel Oil
               Record Length: 123 bytes

     File 15:  CE92F15T.TXT  District Heat
               Record Length: 197 bytes

C921618T.ZIP and C921618D.ZIP contain the following files:

     File 16:  EU92F16T.TXT  Consumption of Electricity by End Use
               Record Length: 187 bytes

     File 17:  EU92F17T.TXT  Consumption of Natural Gas, Fuel Oil, and
               District Heat by End Use
               Record Length: 202 bytes

     File 18:  EU92F18T.TXT  Consumption of Major Fuels by End Use
               Record Length: 187 bytes
 

The documentation, which includes the file layout (Appendix A) and SAS formats (Appendix B) is located in the technical documentation file. This file is in PDF format.

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File Last Modified: July 17, 1996

Joelle Michaels
mailto:joelle.michaels@eia.doe.gov
CBECS Manager
Phone: (202) 586-8952
FAX: (202) 586-0018

For technical questions about the CBECS data or the Public Use Files contact:

Jay Olsen via E-mail jay.olsen@eia.doe.gov
or by phone on (202-586-1137)

For answers to questions of energy statistics in general, please contact EIA's National Energy Information Center at:

National Energy Information Center, EI-231
Energy Information Administration
Telephone: 202-586-8800
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