COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING ENERGY USE SURVEY 2000 (CIBEUS) Detailed Statistical Report, December 2002

How to Read These Tables

The sample table below illustrates the types of tables presented in this report. This statistical report provides representative results on the number of buildings, total floor space, total energy consumption and energy intensity at a desegregated level for the CIBEUS target population. The CIBEUS target population includes all buildings with an area of at least 93 square metres (1,000 square feet), of which 50 percent or more is devoted to commercial or institutional activities, located in Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) or Census Agglomerations (CAs) with populations of 175,000 or greater (populations of 50,000 or greater in the Atlantic provinces).

For each category listed in the left-hand column of a table, characteristics of buildings, such as the estimated number of buildings, floor space, energy consumption and energy intensity, are described in numbers of buildings, square metres (m²), gigajoules (GJ) and gigajoules per square metre (GJ/m²) under the appropriate column on the right. The numbers for buildings, floor space and energy consumption are rounded to the nearest whole number; as a result, these numbers may not add up to the totals indicated and may differ slightly among tables.

Alphabetic symbols used in the statistical tables indicate the extent of the sampling error, or the coefficient of variation, of the estimates. "A" indicates that the estimate has a very low coefficient of variation; "B" indicates the coefficient of variation is somewhat larger; and so forth. Estimates with "A" and "B" indicators are considered precise enough for most purposes. Data with higher coefficients of variation (those with "C" and "D" indicators) are precise enough for some purposes; however, you should use the data with caution. "F" indicates that the estimate had a coefficient of variation of more than 50 percent. Estimates subject to sampling error of that magnitude were not published. The alphabetic symbol "x" indicates cases in which information was suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.

The letter beside each estimate classifies its quality as follows: A - Excellent, B - Good, C - Acceptable, D - Use with caution, F - Too unreliable to be published, x - Suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Due to rounding the numbers may not add up and may differ slightly among tables.
NOTE: Estimates relate only to the surveyed areas of populations of 175,000 and greater, and in Atlantic Canada to populations of 50,000 and greater.
Source: Commercial and Institutional Building Energy Use Survey 2000.

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