Comparing the Coverage of Alternative Address Frames for the 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey

• Activity Number: 17
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Sunday, July 31, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
• Author(s): Rachel Harter and Katie Dekker and Anna Wiencrot*+ and Ned English and Jizhou Fu and Mary Hess and Hina Shah and Bradley Parsell
• Companies: NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago and NORC at the The University of Chicago
• Keywords: sampling frames ; address-based sampling ; area probability studies

Abstract

Address-based studies require high quality address sources for frame construction. The 2009 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) for the Energy Information Administration (EIA) employed an address frame based on the USPS Delivery Sequence file (DSF) supplemented by traditional and enhanced listing. The purpose of this research was to understand differences in coverage among the DSF, traditional listing, and enhanced listing in areas of questionable coverage. This research set out to: 1) match the addresses in segments that were used in both the 2005 and 2009 RECS in order to understand changes over time and changes in method, and 2) examine the coverage of the DSF in 2009 RECS segments that were proximate to the threshold where we could have used any of the methods.