Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Glossary." National Research Council. 2012. Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13360.
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| area probability sample | a sample generated by dividing a geographic area into a number of smaller areas and then sampling from a subset of these areas |
| coverage error | bias resulting from the omission of units from the sampling frame |
| end use | a specific activity that requires energy (for example, space heating or refrigeration) |
| Energy Star certification | a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that certifies energy-efficient products |
| geocoding | the process of appending geographic identifiers (codes or coordinates) to an address |
| hot deck imputation | a method for handling missing data by filling in a missing value with a response from another case within the same data set |
Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Glossary." National Research Council. 2012. Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13360.
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| LEED certification | a building certification system providing verification that a building was designed and built according to a set of “green” standards |
| list sample | a sample generated from a sampling frame that exists in a list form (such as a list of housing unit addresses) |
| multistage sampling | a sampling process involving several stages, in which units at each subsequent stage (for example, households) are subsampled from previously selected larger units (for example, city blocks or neighborhoods) |
| sampling frame | the set of units from which the sample is selected |
| sampling units | the individual units selected from the sampling frame |
| show card | an interviewing aid consisting of a paper version of answer options or definitions associated with questionnaire items and used during an in-person interview when the questions are read to the respondent and may be too difficult to understand or remember without a visual aid (also referred to as hand cards or flash cards) |
| smart meter | electric meter that transmits electricity consumption data to the utility and typically enables a consumer to see a detailed breakdown of the electricity usage information collected by the meter |
| stratified sample | a sampling technique that involves dividing the sampling frame into distinct subgroups of similar units and then selecting a separate sample from each of the subgroups |
