Availability of LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2004
THIS CONTAINS INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LIHEAP INFORMATION MEMORANDUM TRANSMITTAL
NO. LIHEAP-IM-2006-13, DATED 8/3/06
TO: LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (LIHEAP)
GRANTEES
SUBJECT: Availability of LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for
Fiscal Year 2004
RELATED Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act, Title XXVI
REFERENCES: of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981,
Public Law 97-35, as amended
PURPOSE: To transmit to State LIHEAP offices a copy of
the technical assistance publication entitled,
LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2004.
BACKGROUND: Beginning in Fiscal Year 1995, the Office of
Community Services (OCS) has issued an annual
LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook to LIHEAP grantees.
Each Notebook includes the latest national and
regional data on home energy consumption,
expenditures, and burden for all, non-low income,
low income, and LIHEAP recipient households. Each
Notebook also reports on low income trends in home
energy. For the last several years, the Notebook
also includes a section on LIHEAP performance
measurement.
CONTENT: The home energy statistics included in the LIHEAP
Home Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2004 were
derived from the following data sources and
analytic procedures:
. Household home energy data were adjusted from
the U.S. Department of Energy's 2001 Residential
Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).
. Household income data were obtained from the U.S.
U.S. Bureau of the Census' 2005 Current Population
Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement
(ASEC).
. State-level data on residential energy prices
and expenditures were obtained from the U.S.
Department of Energy's State Energy Price and
Expenditure Report.
. Other public data such as weather data were
obtained from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
. Energy end-use disaggregation procedures were
developed by the Energy End Use and Integrated
Statistics Division of the Energy Information
Administration in the U.S. Department of
Energy.
The Notebook's section on LIHEAP performance
measurement describes the Federal use of
recipiency targeting indexes. The data for
calculating the targeting indexes includes, in
part, the number of LIHEAP income eligible
households. This number is derived from the
Census Bureau's ASEC.
State LIHEAP agencies may be interested in
calculating their program's recipiency targeting
indexes. Appendix B of the Notebook includes, by
State, tables for FY 2004 of the estimated number
of LIHEAP income eligible households broken out by
poverty level and by vulnerability group
(households with at least one member 60 years or
older, one member with a disability, and at least
one member 5 years or under).
Finally, the Notebook includes results from OCS'
LIHEAP Exploratory Study (May 2006). The study
assesses the feasibility of:
. developing a protocol for States to collect
information from energy distribution companies;
. analyzing the effect of the standard of housing
and housing age on energy costs to low-income
households;
. evaluating regional difference in cost-of-
living and the ability of low-income families
to meet home energy requirements; and
. examining how individual State data on home
energy affordability could potentially be
combined into a national database.
ATTACHMENT: LIHEAP Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2004
INQUIRIES TO: Leon Litow, Lead Program Analyst
Division of Energy Assistance
Office of Community Services, ACF
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20447
(202) 401-5304
E-mail: litow@acf.hhs.gov
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Nick St. Angelo
Director
Division of Energy Assistance
