Table 1. Total Energy Consumption in U.S. Households by Origin of Householder, 1997
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| | Origin of Householder |
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| Total | Non-Hispanic | Non-Hispanic |Hispanic| Other1 |
| | White | Black | | |
|________|______________|______________|________|________| RSE
| | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.3 |Factors
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Million Households
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Total U.S. Households....... 101.5 75.1 12.6 9.4 4.3 | 3.9
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Number of Households, Fuels |
Used (more than one may |
apply): |
Electricity2.............. 101.4 75.1 12.6 9.4 4.3 | 3.9
Natural Gas............... 61.9 43.5 8.5 6.8 3.1 | 5.8
Fuel Oil.................. 10.0 8.0 0.9 0.9 0.2 | 18.0
Kerosene.................. 3.5 2.7 0.6 Q Q | 18.5
LPG....................... 8.1 6.9 0.6 0.5 Q | 20.9
Wood...................... 15.0 13.0 1.0 0.7 0.3 | 12.4
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Quadrillion Btu
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Total Btu Consumption, Fuels |
Used: |
Electricity |
Primary ................ 10.72 8.43 1.21 0.77 0.31 | 4.4
Site ................... 3.54 2.78 0.40 0.26 0.10 | 4.4
Natural Gas............... 5.28 3.89 0.82 0.38 0.20 | 6.9
Fuel Oil.................. 1.01 0.84 0.08 0.07 0.01 | 20.0
Kerosene.................. 0.06 0.05 0.01 Q Q | 30.4
LPG....................... 0.36 0.32 0.02 0.01 Q | 20.9
Wood...................... 0.43 0.40 0.02 0.01 0.01 | 19.3
Total (excludes primary |
electricity and wood)..... 10.25 7.88 1.33 0.72 0.32 | 4.3
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Physical Units
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Physical Units of Total |
Consumption, Fuels Used: |
Electricity (billion kWh). 1,037 815 117 75 30 | 4.4
Natural Gas (billion cf).. 5,143 3,784 798 366 195 | 6.9
Fuel Oil (million gallons) 7,273 6,085 589 506 93 | 20.0
Kerosene (million gallons) 437 335 89 Q Q | 30.4
LPG (million gallons)..... 3,937 3,529 192 139 Q | 20.9
Wood (million cords)...... 21.4 19.8 0.8 0.6 0.3 | 19.3
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Million Btu per Household3
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Total Btu Consumption per |
Household, Fuels Used: |
Electricity |
Primary ................ 105.6 112.2 96.1 82.1 71.3 | 2.9
Site ................... 34.9 37.0 31.7 27.1 23.5 | 2.9
Natural Gas............... 85.3 89.4 96.3 55.1 64.5 | 3.7
Fuel Oil.................. 101.2 105.1 89.3 81.6 80.1 | 8.2
Kerosene.................. 17.0 16.9 18.5 Q Q | 21.4
LPG....................... 44.6 46.7 31.7 26.6 Q | 13.1
Wood...................... 28.5 30.4 15.9 16.3 17.0 | 14.9
Total (excludes primary |
electricity and wood)..... 101.0 104.8 105.6 75.9 74.6 | 2.5
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See footnotes at end of table.
Table 1. Total Energy Consumption in U.S. Households by Origin of Householder, 1997 (Continued)
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| | Origin of Householder |
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| Total | Non-Hispanic | Non-Hispanic |Hispanic| Other1 |
| | White | Black | | |
|________|______________|______________|________|________| RSE
| | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.3 |Factors
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Physical Units per Household3
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Physical Units of Total |
Consumption per Household, |
Fuels Used: |
Electricity (kWh)......... 10,219 10,850 9,292 7,946 6,895 | 2.9
Natural Gas (thousand cf). 83 87 94 54 63 | 3.7
Fuel Oil (gallons)........ 730 759 644 588 578 | 8.2
Kerosene (gallons)........ 126 125 137 Q Q | 21.4
LPG (gallons)............. 488 511 347 291 Q | 13.1
Wood (cords).............. 1.4 1.5 0.8 0.8 0.9| 14.9
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Million Households
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Number of Households, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating4............ 99.7 74.4 12.4 9.0 4.0 | 4.0
Electric Air-Conditioning5 72.6 56.1 9.0 5.2 2.4 | 4.7
Water Heating6............ 100.8 74.8 12.5 9.3 4.2 | 4.0
Refrigerators............. 101.3 75.1 12.6 9.4 4.3 | 3.9
Appliances................ 101.5 75.1 12.6 9.4 4.3 | 3.9
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Quadrillion Btu
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Total Btu Consumption, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating............. 5.18 4.10 0.68 0.27 0.14 | 5.6
Electric Air-Conditioning. 0.42 0.32 0.05 0.04 0.01 | 7.0
Water Heating............. 1.92 1.36 0.28 0.20 0.08 | 4.7
Refrigerators............. 0.46 0.35 0.06 0.04 0.02 | 4.1
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 2.27 1.75 0.27 0.18 0.07 | 4.0
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Million Btu per Household3
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Total Btu Consumption per |
Household, Where the End Use |
Is: |
Space Heating............. 52.0 55.1 54.3 29.8 35.1 | 4.6
Electric Air-Conditioning. 5.7 5.7 5.7 7.2 4.1 | 5.0
Water Heating............. 19.0 18.2 22.0 21.1 19.9 | 2.8
Refrigerators............. 4.5 4.6 4.4 3.9 3.8 | 2.4
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 22.4 23.3 21.7 18.9 17.1 | 2.1
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1 Includes Native American, Alaskan Native, Asian, and Pacific Islander.
2 The RECS cannot be used to accurately estimate the number of households that do not use
electricity.
3 The averages for total and for appliances are over the set of all households; otherwise
the averages are over the set of households using a given fuel or over the set using a given
end use.
4 Households where the main or secondary space-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas,
fuel oil, kerosene, or LPG.
5 The number of households, where the end use is electric air-conditioning, does not
include households that did not use their equipment (0.9 million). It does include the small
number of households where the fuel for central air-conditioning equipment was something
other than electricity; those households were treated as if the fuel was electricity.
6 Households where the main or secondary water-heating fuel is electricity, natural gas,
fuel oil, kerosene, or LPG.
Q = Data withheld either because the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50
percent or fewer than 10 households were sampled.
Notes: • To obtain the RSE percentage for any table cell, multiply the corresponding
column and row factors. • Because of rounding, data may not sum to totals. • See "Glossary"
for definition of terms used in this report.
Source: Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Forms
EIA-457 A-G of the 1997 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.
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