Budget and Performance
EIA receives funding for its activities with an annual appropriation from the Congress. In Congress, our budget is reviewed by the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Energy and Water Development.
Our FY 2009 budget is $110.6 million, with a Federal staffing level of 375 people. About 45% of the budget is used to pay the Federal staff. Another 48% of the budget funds about 225 support service contractors that are used to help us design and run our energy data and analysis systems. The remaining 7% of the budget pays for office space and other administrative expenses such as telephones and office supplies.
The FY 2009 funding supports on-going operations, with a focus on:
- Providing core data, analyses, and forecasting programs critical to energy markets and policymakers
- Addressing critical petroleum data quality issues
- Preparing forms and systems for collection of weekly ethanol-based renewable fuels data beginning in 2010
- Resuming work on the National Energy Model project to improve the ability to assess and forecast supply, demand, and technology trends affecting U.S. and world energy markets
- Increasing international oil, natural gas, and coal markets data and analyses
- Strengthening cyber-security to protect market sensitive data
EIA’s FY 2009 Congressional Budget submission can be viewed at http://www.cfo.doe.gov/crorg/cf30.htm.
Doing Business With EIA
Contracting and procurement for EIA, including opportunities for small businesses, are handled by the agency’s Office of Resource Management. Federal government-wide contracting opportunities can be found at FedBizOpps.
Performance Measures
As a statistical survey organization, EIA has used a variety of measures to assess its performance for many years, including measures to monitor operations of specific surveys and processes. In addition, we use several measures to assess our overall performance, and currently have three measures that we report on annually and are included in our budget.
- Customer survey results: We have conducted at least one agency-wide customer satisfaction survey each year since the mid-1990s. The customer survey results provide important insights into how satisfied users are with our information, who our customers are, how our information is used, and areas for future improvements. Our most recent survey, which was fielded in July 2008 on our website, collected 5,630 responses in three weeks and provided a wealth of customer information. We plan to conduct another web-based customer survey in 2009.
- Meeting scheduled release dates: Many users of our information rely on our information to be available on schedule. We again strived to meet these release dates this past year despite disruptions of the workplace during building renovations.
- Cost savings: As a small agency, we monitor our costs closely, and have found ways to limit cost increases for some surveys despite rising costs in many areas.
The following table shows our current results and targets.
| EIA Performance Measures | ||||||
| Quality of EIA Information Products: 90 percent or more of customers are satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of EIA information. | ||||||
| year | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| target | NA | 90% | 90% | 90% | 90% | 90% |
| actual | 90% | 93% | 92% | 90% | ||
| Cost savings realized from a subset of surveys, released on schedule, without any decrease in accuracy. | ||||||
| year | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| target | Baseline | <inflation | <inflation | <inflation | <inflation | <inflation |
| actual | 0% | -2.5% | -5.2% | +1.5% | ||
| Timeliness of EIA Information Products: 95 percent of selected EIA recurring products meet their release date targets (all product types). | ||||||
| year | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| target | NA | 85% | 90% | 90% | 95% | 95% |
| actual | 91% | 94% | 94% | 95% | ||
Additional information about our performance is contained in the 2008 Annual Performance Report.
For questions on the EIA Budget please contact Gale Kabat, (202) 586-2469; for questions on the Performance Measures please contact Tom Broene, (202) 586-5774.
Last updated: April 2009