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Table CE1-8c. Total Energy Consumption in U.S. Households by Urban/Rural Location, 2001 (Continued) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | Urban/Rural Location¹ | | |___________________________________________________| | | | | | | | Total | City | Town | Suburbs | Rural | |____________|____________|____________|____________|____________| RSE | | | | | | Row RSE Column Factor: | 0.5 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 |Factors ________________________________|____________|____________|____________|____________|____________|_______ Physical Units per Household³ ________________________________________________________________________ | Physical Units of Total | Consumption per Household, Fuels | Used: | Electricity (kWh)............. 10,656 8,869 10,425 12,028 14,251 | 2.4 Natural Gas (thousand cf)..... 70 65 75 78 77 | 3.2 Fuel Oil (gallons)............ 589 493 638 635 622 | 5.4 Kerosene (gallons)............ 119 54 102 Q 163 | 22.1 LPG (gallons)................. 440 281 467 406 461 | 11.6 Wood (cords).................. 1.3 0.6 1.2 0.6 2.3 | 11.9 ________________________________________________________________|_______ Million Households ________________________________________________________________________ | Number of Households, Where the | End Use Is: | Space Heating⁴................ 105.3 48.9 17.9 21.1 17.3 | 4.2 Electric Air-Conditioning⁵.... 80.8 35.6 13.4 18.6 13.3 | 4.3 Water Heating⁶................ 106.7 49.7 18.0 21.2 17.8 | 4.2 Refrigerators................. 106.8 49.7 18.0 21.2 17.8 | 4.2 Appliances.................... 107.0 49.9 18.0 21.2 17.9 | 4.2 ________________________________________________________________|_______ Quadrillion Btu^a ________________________________________________________________________ | Total Btu Consumption, Where the | End Use Is: | Space Heating................. 4.62 1.99 0.90 0.97 0.76 | 5.1 Electric Air-Conditioning..... 0.62 0.26 0.09 0.17 0.11 | 5.9 Water Heating................. 1.68 0.77 0.29 0.37 0.25 | 3.9 Refrigerators................. 0.53 0.22 0.09 0.12 0.10 | 4.2 Other Appliances and Lighting. 2.40 0.98 0.41 0.55 0.46 | 4.4 ________________________________________________________________|_______ Million Btu per Household^3a ________________________________________________________________________ | Total Btu Consumption per | Household, Where the End Use Is: | Space Heating................. 43.9 40.6 50.3 45.8 44.1 | 3.4 Electric Air-Conditioning..... 7.7 7.3 6.4 9.3 8.0 | 4.0 Water Heating................. 15.8 15.4 16.1 17.5 14.3 | 2.1 Refrigerators................. 5.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 5.8 | 2.1 Other Appliances and Lighting. 22.5 19.7 22.6 25.9 25.9 | 2.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________|_______ ¹ Based on the household respondent's description rather than the Federal Government definition. 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. ^a The row factor in this section is underestimated because it contains no error for estimating the end-use. (*) = Value rounds to zero in the units displayed. 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 2001 Residential Energy Consumption Survey.

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