Heating Energy Consumption Questionnaire and Statistical Analysis of Rural Buildings in China

The heating energy consumption in rural residential buildings is increasing in recent years. In order to analyze the rural heating energy consumption, energy consumption questionnaire which covers main factors related to rural building energy consumption is designed. The information collected in questionnaire which covers 181 questions mainly includes five parts: family basic information, rural residential building features, building envelope information, indoor air quality in winter and building heating energy consumption. Two hundred questionnaires were collected in three northeastern provinces in China. Different frequency distributions can be obtained from the statistical analysis. Three ratios which included the ratio of annual household heating energy consumption to total energy consumption, that of annual household heating commodity energy consumption to total heating energy consumption and that of annual household heating non-commodity energy consumption to total heating energy consumption were calculated and analyzed. The questionnaire and statistical analyses present a reliable, valid, and economical instrument for in-depth rural energy saving research. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.