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Data from the last two Residential Transportation Energy Consumption Surveys are available on-line. These data include fuel consumption and expenditures, vehicle-miles traveled, vehicle characteristics, and household characteristics from national samples of over 3,000 households. To protect respondent confidentiality, these data files do not contain any information which could be used to identify individual households. The lowest level of geographic detail provided is the Census Division (a grouping of 3 to 5 States.)

1994 RTECS Public Use Data
1991 RTECS Public Use Data

1994 RTECS Public Use Data

The data from the 1994 RTECS is distributed in dBase and ASCII formats. The data in each set has been compressed using PKZIP. After downloading either the ASCII or dBase set, place the downloaded file in a separate directory and expand it using pkunzip. If you don't have pkunzip.exe, you can download that package here. PKUNZIP.EXE is in PKZ204g.exe. PKUNZIP.EXE is the only file you need, but the developers of the product have asked that the entire package be distributed and not the individual files. You can however find pkunzip.exe on several other Internet sites. If you download PKZ204g.exe to a separate directory, type PKZ204g and press ENTER.

Copy PKUNZIP.EXE to the directory where your RTECS public use files reside.

If you downloaded the ASCII files, (RT94ASC.ZIP) File size 3.6 MB
and you're using DOS:

Type PKUNZIP RT94ASC.ZIP in DOS from the download directory.

or

If your Windows is set up to automatically use PKUNZIP when clicking any file with the ZIP extension, just double-click RT94ASC.ZIP.

The following files will be created

ASCII1.EXE
ASCII2.EXE
ASCII3.EXE

If you downloaded the dBase files, (RT94DBF.ZIP) File size 3.4 MB
and you're using DOS:

Type PKUNZIP RT94DBF.ZIP in DOS from the download directory.

or

If your Windows is set up to automatically use PKUNZIP when clicking any file with the ZIP extension, just double-click RT94DBF.ZIP.

The following files will be created

DBF1.EXE
DBF2.EXE
DBF3.EXE

NEXT: Proceed to expand the three newly created files by typing ASCII1, ASCII2, DBF1, etc. at the DOS prompt or by double-clicking the ASCII1.EXE, ASCII2.EXE, DBF1.EXE, etc. file.

Two readme text files and several .EXE files will be created. The .EXE files are self-decompressing pkzip files.

The 1994 RTECS Public Use Data User's Guide contains all necessary documentation to use the public use data files.
IMPORTANT: Please read the documentation first. You may not need all of the files expanded. The documentation refers to the data as though it were on floppy diskettes.

Type APPENDA (at the DOS prompt) or double-click APPENDA.EXE (in Windows) to expand APPENDA.EXE, etc.

Listed below are the contents of each file and the number of bytes.

ASCII1.EXE (contents)

READ1ST.TXT          494
README.TXT        38,726
APPENDA.EXE       19,552
APPENDB.EXE       40,026
APPENDC.EXE       17,190
APPENDD.EXE       27,752
APPENDE.EXE       99,785
APPENDF.EXE       16,721
APPENDG.EXE       17,155
APPENDH.EXE       17,246
APPENDI.EXE      207,059
APPENDJ.EXE       19,623
APPENDK.EXE       16,696
APPLIANC.EXE      96,869
BEHAPERC.EXE      85,999
CONEL.EXE        167,775
CONNGLP.EXE      121,945
CONSERVE.EXE      70,618
CONOTHER.EXE      75,919
DEMOGRAP.EXE     105,952
ENERGY.EXE        66,091

ASCII2.EXE (contents)

EPROGRMH.EXE      69,190
EPROGRMS.EXE      57,220
EQUIP.EXE         67,645
EXPEL.EXE        134,879
EXPNGLP.EXE      108,836
EXPOTHER.EXE      85,196
FUELTYPE.EXE      53,302
HOUSEHLD.EXE     131,682
IMPUTAT1.EXE      65,990
IMPUTAT2.EXE      62,309
MEASURE.EXE       82,678
MILES.EXE        113,852
MISCELLA.EXE      71,288
STOCK1.EXE       101,273
STOCK2.EXE        66,465
STRUCTUR.EXE      96,558

ASCII3.EXE (contents)

VECONEXP.EXE     128,398
VEH1.EXE          88,387
VEH2.EXE          97,613
VEH3.EXE          69,723
VEH4.EXE          75,345
VEH5.EXE          95,818
VEH6.EXE          62,290
VEH7.EXE          64,602
VEH8.EXE          88,079
VEH9.EXE          77,668
VEH10.EXE         53,377
VEH11.EXE         80,407
VEH12.EXE         68,456
VEH13.EXE         57,499

DBF1.EXE (contents)

READ1ST.TXT         494
README.TXT       38,726
APPENDA.EXE      19,552
APPENDB.EXE      40,026
APPENDC.EXE      17,190
APPENDD.EXE      27,752
APPENDE.EXE      99,785
APPENDF.EXE      16,721
APPENDG.EXE      17,155
APPENDH.EXE      17,246
APPENDI.EXE     207,059
APPENDJ.EXE      19,623
APPENDK.EXE      16,696
APPLIANC.EXE     85,222
BEHAPERC.EXE     75,730
CONEL.EXE       158,480
CONNGLP.EXE     112,602
CONOTHER.EXE     71,728
CONSERVE.EXE     61,188
DEMOGRAP.EXE     92,352
ENERGY.EXE       59,796

DBF2.EXE (contents)

EPROGRMH.EXE     62,125
EPROGRMS.EXE     49,948
EQUIP.EXE        60,981
EXPEL.EXE       123,709
EXPNGLP.EXE      92,314
EXPOTHER.EXE     71,966
FUELTYPE.EXE     48,763
HOUSEHLD.EXE    119,566
IMPUTAT1.EXE     59,530
IMPUTAT2.EXE     56,076
MEASURE.EXE      74,341
MILES.EXE       105,758
MISCELLA.EXE     65,173
STOCK1.EXE       94,900
STOCK2.EXE       60,617
STRUCTUR.EXE     87,201

DBF3.EXE (contents)

VECONEXP.EXE    121,794
VEH1.EXE         79,859
VEH2.EXE         86,475
VEH3.EXE         66,289
VEH4.EXE         71,907
VEH5.EXE         84,029
VEH6.EXE         55,283
VEH7.EXE         59,468
VEH8.EXE         81,753
VEH9.EXE         71,609
VEH10.EXE        49,810
VEH11.EXE        71,994
VEH12.EXE        63,185
VEH13.EXE        52,514

1991 RTECS Public Use Data

Data files from the 1991 RTECS can be accessed below. The data are available in both DBase and ASCII format. The data have been compressed into 6 zip files with an extension of zip. After downloading the files, they should be placed in a separate directory and expanded by using a pkunzip program (also available below).

The file names are:

PKZIP software  Pkunzip.exe is needed to expand the ZIP files.
RTECS91.TXT     Information on the 1991 RTECS Public Use Data
RT91ASC1.ZIP    Disk 1 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - ASCII Version (761,251 bytes)
RT91ASC2.ZIP    Disk 2 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - ASCII Version ( 683,786 bytes)
RT91ASC3.ZIP    Disk 3 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - ASCII Version (672,370 bytes)
RT91DB1.ZIP     Disk 1 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - dBase Version (761,607 bytes)
RT91DB2.ZIP     Disk 2 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - dBase Version (1,052,524 bytes)
RT91DB3.ZIP     Disk 3 of 1991 RTECS Public Use Data - dBase Version (271,241 bytes)

Note: There is a readme file in the first file of each format. The documentation refers to the files as being compressed with ARC and DBA. However these files have all been compressed into ZIP files for ease of use and will expand to the proper ASCII and DBASE format.

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Release Date: November 8, 1999