Name:Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS)

Number of buildings	11987	Location of buildings	Australia	Survey method	Personal and computer assisted interview
Collected Data	Energy sources, energy expenditure, household income, energy consumption, dwelling characteristics	Type of building(s)	Residential,commercial	Date	2012
Survey provider	Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

Access to the dataset

These data is freely accessible from here in the form of xls tables.

Data set description

The CBECS data set includes energy related data on the US's commercial buildings. According to the definition buildings such as hospitals and schools have been considered as well. the data have been collected in two phases, one is the building survey and the second is energy supplier survey. this survey is conducted every few years. the first one at 1979 and the latest at 2012. demography and characteristics like income and age. It also contains information on climate zones as well as building characteristics, and energy resource types and household expenditure on energy.

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