Electric Utility Rate Demonstration Project: Connecticut, 1975-1976 (ICPSR 7881)
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United States Department of Energy
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07881.v1
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One in a series of studies on customer response to utility regulatory pricing in early 1975, the Connecticut demonstration project was carried out by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA), Connecticut Light and Power, the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, and the Charles River Associates between the years 1975 and 1976. The study was originally titled the Connecticut Off-Peak Pricing Opportunity Study and the Electricity Usage Study and was an experiment to generate and analyze data on the effects of peak-load pricing on residential electric consumption. Household electric consumption data were collected for one year, and the experimental design featured a seasonally differentiated time of day rate. Five sets of data resulted from the demonstration: questionnaire survey of the customers, summary demographic information, utility load reports, weather data, and customer usage records. All five sets are available in this data collection. Parts 3-5 each contain 28 days of data, with Parts 3 and 5 including hourly data. Parts 3-5 also contain identifying information that links their data to the pertinent customer/participant's demographic data in Part 2.
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1) The start dates that are reported in all five parts of the Connecticut demonstration are essential variables in the linkage process. These variables, used in conjunction with the utility code, weather station identification, and customer identification, enable the records of Parts 2-5 to be matched and merged or subset. When corrections of data values were made, an updated record was added to the file, but the originally reported data record was retained. In these instances where there are duplicate records for the same reporting period, the second record has the correct data values. 2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
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Stratified random probability sampling.
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Residential customers in the Connecticut Light and Power service area.
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(1) personal interviews, (2) telephone interviews, (3) utility usage and load records, and (4) National Weather Service records
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1984-05-11
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- U.S. Dept. of Energy. ELECTRIC UTILITY RATE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT: CONNECTICUT, 1975-1976. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1981. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07881.v1
2006-01-18 File CB7881.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
1984-05-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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