Availability of LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2006
THIS CONTAINS INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION FOR
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN LIHEAP INFORMATION MEMORANDUM TRANSMITTAL
NO. LIHEAP-IM-2008-14, DATED 9/16/08
TO: STATE LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
(LIHEAP) GRANTEES
SUBJECT: Availability of LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for
Fiscal Year 2006
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 2006.
BACKGROUND: Beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 1995, the Office of
Community Services (OCS) has issued to State LIHEAP
grantees an annual supplement to the LIHEAP Report
to Congress called the LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook
(the Notebook). Each Notebook (1) 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; and (2) reports on low income trends
in home energy. For the last several years, each
Notebook has also included a section on LIHEAP
performance measurement.
CONTENT: The following home energy data for the LIHEAP Home
Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2006 were derived
from the following sources and analytic procedures:
• Household income, energy and, expenditures data
were obtained from the U.S. Department of
Energy's 2001 Residential Energy Consumption
Survey (RECS). The energy data were adjusted
to FY 2006 based on changes in weather and fuel
prices. The income data were adjusted by the
consumer price index.
• 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 U.S. 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 LIHEAP Performance Measurement section of the
FY 2006 Notebook describes the Federal government's
use of national recipiency targeting indexes. The
data that the Federal government used to calculate
such indexes for the entire country includes, in
part, the estimated number of LIHEAP income
eligible households. This number is derived from
the Census Bureau's CPS ASEC.
Appendix A of the FY 2006 Notebook includes
national and Census regional, estimates of
residential and home energy expenditures,
residential and home energy burden and home energy
consumption for all, non-low income, low income,
and LIHEAP recipient households.
Appendix B of the FY 2006 Notebook includes, by
State, two sets of estimated numbers 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, or one member 5 years or under).
One set of data were computed as 3-year averages
from the U.S. Bureau of the Census' Current
Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic
Supplement (CPS ASEC) for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
The other set of data were computed as 2-year
averages from the U.S. Census' American Community
Survey (ACS).
State LIHEAP agencies may use these estimates to
calculate their program's recipiency targeting
indexes
ATTACHMENT: LIHEAP Home Energy Notebook for Fiscal Year 2006(Request a copy)
INQUIRIES TO: Peter Edelman, 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) 401-5292
E-mail: peter.edelman@acf.hhs.gov
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Nick St. Angelo
Director
Division of Energy Assistance
