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MANUFACTURING ENERGY CONSUMPTION
SURVEY
PURPOSE
The Manufacturing Energy
Consumption Survey (MECS) is the Energy Information Administration's (EIA's)
survey of energy use and related activities by U.S. manufacturers. The survey
is administered and compiled by the Census Bureau.
º The EIA
provides full survey funding, directs design, and publishes data products.
EIA laws provide for mandatory survey data collection.
º The Census Bureau
provides statistical expertise and resources, collects and processes data,
and prepares summary tabulations. Census Bureau law protects the confidentiality
of individual reports.
SCOPE
MECS estimates cover
all manufacturing establishments with paid employees. MECS collects data
on energy consumption and usage patterns, and measures short-term capability
to substitute fuels in place of those usually consumed. Starting in 1991,
data also include byproduct fuels produced onsite, and energy consumption
by end use and various technologies. Surveys were conducted for calendar
years 1994, 1991, 1988, and 1985. The next MECS is tentatively scheduled
to cover the year 1998.
METHODS
A mail-out/mail-back
survey of establishments selected from the Census of Manufactures or Annual
Survey of Manufactures. Establishments for the most energy intensive industries
are selected with certainty. Establishments in other industries are stratified
by industry and geographic location, and selected with probabilities proportional
to total energy costs. Selected establishments receive one of three industry-based
forms--one for petroleum refiners; one for primary chemical, paper, primary
metal, and wood product producers; and one for all other manufacturers.
The sample is updated before each survey to account for business births
and deaths since the prior sample.
PRODUCTS
Complete information
and data for MECS are available from the EIA. Primary reports
are:
º Manufacturing
Energy Consumption Survey, (1994), providing the preliminary estimates
for U.S. manufacturing total inputs of energy for heat, power, and electricity
generation.
º Manufacturing
Consumption of Energy, (1991), providing national estimates of energy
consumption in forty 2 digit SIC manufacturing industries, and of manufacturer's
fuel-switching capabilities.
º Changes
in Energy Intensity in the Manufacturing Sector (1985-1994), combining
data from MECS and the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and providing estimates
of changes in energy intensity by industry since 1980.
MECS data,
and related data from annual surveys of manufactures and quinquennial
censuses of manufactures, are also available in a longitudinal research
database at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies.
RELATED PROGRAMS
Census of Manufactures
Annual Survey of Manufactures
Longitudinal Research Database
EXPLORE INFORMATION CONTINUE OVERVIEW
 Manufacturing Next Program
U.S. Economy Economy Overview
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