Table 3. Total Energy Consumption in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997
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| | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- |
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| | | | | | | for |
| | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal |
| | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- |
| Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 |
|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE
| | | | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 |Factors
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Million Households
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Total U.S. Households....... 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7
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Number of Households, Fuels |
Used (more than one may |
apply): |
Electricity2.............. 101.4 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.7
Natural Gas............... 61.9 8.0 17.0 19.0 17.9 9.1 20.4 | 4.3
Fuel Oil.................. 10.0 1.3 2.5 3.2 3.0 1.4 3.4 | 10.4
Kerosene.................. 3.5 0.4 1.2 1.2 0.6 0.6 1.4 | 14.5
LPG....................... 8.1 1.0 2.4 2.7 1.9 1.2 2.8 | 12.7
Wood...................... 15.0 0.7 3.0 4.7 6.7 1.1 3.0 | 9.4
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Quadrillion Btu
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Total Btu Consumption, Fuels |
Used: |
Electricity |
Primary ................ 10.72 1.01 2.69 3.27 3.74 1.24 2.98 | 3.6
Site ................... 3.54 0.33 0.89 1.08 1.24 0.41 0.99 | 3.6
Natural Gas............... 5.28 0.53 1.30 1.65 1.80 0.63 1.53 | 5.5
Fuel Oil.................. 1.01 0.11 0.22 0.31 0.37 0.11 0.30 | 11.5
Kerosene.................. 0.06 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.01 0.01 0.03 | 23.5
LPG....................... 0.36 0.04 0.11 0.13 0.08 0.04 0.12 | 15.3
Wood...................... 0.43 0.03 0.10 0.14 0.15 0.04 0.12 | 14.3
Total (excludes primary |
electricity and wood)..... 10.25 1.02 2.54 3.19 3.49 1.22 2.96 | 3.2
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Physical Units
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Physical Units of Total |
Consumption, Fuels Used: |
Electricity (billion kWh). 1,037 98 260 317 362 120 289 | 3.6
Natural Gas (billion cf).. 5,143 516 1,270 1,604 1,752 618 1,490 | 5.5
Fuel Oil (million gallons) 7,273 761 1,598 2,262 2,653 811 2,138 | 11.5
Kerosene (million gallons) 437 67 161 154 54 98 193 | 23.5
LPG (million gallons)..... 3,937 412 1,177 1,428 920 484 1,286 | 15.3
Wood (million cords)...... 21.4 1.7 4.9 7.1 7.6 2.1 6.1 | 14.3
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Million Btu per Household3
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Total Btu Consumption per |
Household, Fuels Used: |
Electricity |
Primary ................ 105.6 76.2 92.3 105.2 134.1 85.1 87.7 | 2.5
Site ................... 34.9 25.2 30.5 34.7 44.3 28.1 28.9 | 2.5
Natural Gas............... 85.3 66.4 76.7 86.9 100.3 69.4 75.0 | 3.1
Fuel Oil.................. 101.2 81.3 87.9 99.4 123.1 80.8 86.5 | 4.9
Kerosene.................. 17.0 22.3 17.5 17.5 11.5 21.2 18.8 | 19.7
LPG....................... 44.6 36.3 44.1 48.6 43.9 38.2 42.2 | 9.9
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See footnotes at end of table.
Table 3. Total Energy Consumption in U.S. Households by Household Income, 1997 (Continued)
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| | 1997 Household Income | | Eli- |
| |_______________________________________| | gible |
| | | | | | | for |
| | Less | $10,000 | $25,000 | $50,000 | Below | Federal |
| | than | to | to | or | Poverty | Assist- |
| Total | $10,000 | $24,999 | $49,999 | More | Line | ance1 |
|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________| RSE
| | | | | | | | Row
RSE Column Factor: | 0.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.0 |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 7,372 8,926 10,173 12,974 8,229 8,482 | 2.5
Natural Gas (thousand cf). 83 65 75 85 98 68 73 | 3.1
Fuel Oil (gallons)........ 730 587 634 717 888 583 624 | 4.9
Kerosene (gallons)........ 126 166 130 130 85 157 140 | 19.7
LPG (gallons)............. 488 398 483 533 480 418 462 | 9.9
Wood (cords).............. 1.4 2.5 1.7 1.5 1.1 1.9 2.0 | 12.4
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Million Households
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Number of Households, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating4............ 99.7 12.8 28.5 30.7 27.6 14.0 33.0 | 2.8
Electric Air-Conditioning5 72.6 8.1 19.3 23.1 22.2 8.3 20.9 | 3.6
Water Heating6............ 100.8 13.0 29.0 31.0 27.7 14.4 33.7 | 2.8
Refrigerators............. 101.3 13.2 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.0 | 2.7
Appliances................ 101.5 13.3 29.1 31.1 27.9 14.6 34.1 | 2.7
Wood...................... 28.5 49.9 33.4 30.7 22.7 38.9 40.4 | 12.4
Total (excludes primary |
electricity and wood)..... 101.0 76.4 87.3 102.6 125.2 83.0 86.7 | 2.1
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Quadrillion Btu
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Total Btu Consumption, Where |
the End Use Is: |
Space Heating............. 5.18 0.52 1.31 1.64 1.71 0.58 1.48 | 4.1
Electric Air-Conditioning. 0.42 0.04 0.10 0.12 0.16 0.04 0.10 | 6.0
Water Heating............. 1.92 0.21 0.48 0.59 0.64 0.27 0.61 | 3.3
Refrigerators............. 0.46 0.05 0.12 0.14 0.15 0.06 0.13 | 3.2
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 2.27 0.21 0.53 0.71 0.83 0.27 0.63 | 3.2
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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 40.4 45.9 53.4 62.0 41.3 44.9 | 3.5
Electric Air-Conditioning. 5.7 4.6 5.0 5.1 7.3 4.9 4.8 | 4.8
Water Heating............. 19.0 15.8 16.6 19.1 23.1 18.8 18.1 | 2.3
Refrigerators............. 4.5 3.8 4.1 4.4 5.5 3.8 3.9 | 1.9
Other Appliances and |
Lighting.................. 22.4 15.4 18.4 22.7 29.6 18.5 18.6 | 2.0
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1 Below 150 percent of poverty line or 60 percent of median State income.
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.
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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