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Activity Number: 323
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #307258
Title: An Evaluation of the 2002 MECS Measure of Size
Author(s): William Gifford*+
Companies: Energy Information Administration
Address: 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC, 20585,
Keywords: energy ; measure of size ; establishment ; survey ; manufacturing ; evaluation
Abstract:

The Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS) is an establishment survey that collects data on energy consumption, expenditures, and other energy-related topics from the manufacturing sector. The MECS frame is based on the business register, which is managed by the U.S. Census Bureau. The MECS takes advantage of the establishment-level information that comes with sharing a frame with the manufacturing section of the Economic Census. While the MECS is fortunate to have a measure of size assigned to each element in its frame, based on data recorded from those actual elements, statistical analysis is needed to evaluate how the measure of size compared with the energy consumption measures collected in the 2002 MECS. In this paper, the MECS measure of size will be compared with consumption measures graphically and with statistical modeling techniques.

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