Survey of Commercial and Institutional Energy Use (SCIEU) - Buildings 2019 – Data Tables

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Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency is pleased to provide the following data tables, produced from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Commercial and Institutional Energy Use (SCIEU) for 2019.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As a result of fundamental methodological improvements to SCIEU 2019, this dataset is not comparable with earlier published SCIEU data for 2009 and 2014. In addition, these tables contain revisions to the Establishment data published in August 2023: ‘primary energy sources’ for heating and cooling have been re-tabulated to better reflect affected floor space. Further, all Buildings data tables that include occurrences of total or partial non-response have been highlighted and labeled accordingly, and categorized as ‘not available’ where appropriate.

What are the primary differences between 2019 and earlier data?

  • Expanded building types:
    • SCIEU 2019 has increased the number of distinct building types from 9 for the 2014 survey to 22 for 2019. As a result, some building types are now specifically identified instead of being counted in another building type or as ‘other’ e.g., restaurants; and,
    • ‘Mixed-use’ buildings – a new category – typically contains commercial or retail on the ground and first floors, and residential land uses above. What is called ‘mixed-use’ buildings in the 2019 survey might have earlier been identified as ‘office, non-medical’, ‘other’ or something similar.
  • Separate collection for establishments: SCIEU 2019 collected data for establishments separately. Establishments include hospitals, universities, and community colleges / CEGEPs, where one establishment may have one or multiple buildings. For SCIEU 2019, there was a total of 1,444 establishments comprised of 757 hospitals, 242 universities, and 445 community colleges and CEGEPs, and representing 2,008 hospital buildings, 4,660 university buildings and 1,824 community colleges and CEGEP buildings. In earlier editions, only hospitals were specifically counted while the other ‘establishments’ were included in ‘other’.
  • Updated Frame, Coverage and Concepts: Unlike previous editions, Statistics Canada’s ‘Statistical Building Register’ (SBgR) was used as the sampling frame (i.e., listing of buildings) for SCIEU 2019, and will be the frame for future iterations of the survey. The SBgR is a more complete and modern frame as it targets buildings directly, and improves over earlier techniques that targeted businesses and number of employees to estimate building size.
  • Updated methodology for energy use intensity: ‘energy use intensity’ (EUI) is a standardized metric used to compare the energy consumption of various building types. For 2019, the EUI tabulation was modified slightly to better represent building averages by addressing the impact of outliers.
  • Survey operations, COVID-19: SCIEU 2019 was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This had a profound effect on the availability of respondent representatives to complete the survey, due to competing respondent-level priorities as well as several sampled respondents being no longer in business. As a result, data tables that include occurrences of partial or total non-response have been highlighted and labeled accordingly, and categorized as ‘not available’ where appropriate.

As a result of the above, 2019 counts of building types, floor space and energy consumption should not be compared with those of earlier survey editions.

The data in these tables are estimates. When estimates are calculated, coefficients of variation are also provided, which indicate the reliability of the estimate. The letter coding of the quality indicators is defined as follows:
Coefficient of variation Quality indicator (QI)
20% or less A
between 20% and 30% B
between 30% and 40% C
more than 40% F

good and poor quality arrow

Data Tables

Table 1
Building and Establishment characteristics by primary activity, 2019
Table 2.1
Buildings – Characteristics by year of construction, 2019
Table 2.2
Establishments – Characteristics by year of construction, 2019
Table 3.1
Buildings – Characteristics by building size, 2019
Table 3.2
Establishments – Characteristics by establishment size, 2019
Table 4
Buildings – Characteristics by number of floors, 2019
Table 5.1
Buildings – Characteristics by hours of operation, 2019
Table 5.2
Establishments – Characteristics by hours of operation, 2019
Table 6.1
Buildings – Characteristics by energy source used, 2019
Table 6.2
Establishments – Characteristics by energy source used, 2019
Table 7.1
Buildings – Share of fuel types by primary activity, 2019
Table 7.2
Establishments – Share of fuel types by primary activity, 2019
Table 8.1
(Revised) Buildings – Characteristics by main energy source, building size and number of floors for space heating, 2019
Table 8.2
(Revised) Establishments – Characteristics by main energy source and establishment size for space heating, 2019
Table 9.1
(Revised) Buildings – Characteristics by main energy source, building size and number of floors for space cooling, 2019
Table 9.2
(Revised) Establishments – Characteristics by main energy source and establishment size for space cooling, 2019
Table 10.1
(Revised) Buildings – Characteristics by main energy source, building size and number of floors for domestic water heating, 2019
Table 10.2
Establishments – Characteristics by main energy source and establishment size for domestic water heating, 2019
Table 11.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with space heating by primary activity, building size and number of floors (number of buildings), 2019
Table 11.2
(Revised) Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with space heating by primary activity and establishment size (number of establishments), 2019
Table 12.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with space heating by primary activity, building size and number of floors (floor space), 2019
Table 12.2
(Revised) Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with space heating by primary activity and establishment size (floor space), 2019
Table 13.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with space cooling by primary activity, building size and number of floors (number of buildings), 2019
Table 13.2
(Revised) Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with space cooling by primary activity and establishment size (number of establishments), 2019
Table 14.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with space cooling by primary activity, building size and number of floors (floor space), 2019
Table 14.2
(Revised) Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with space cooling by primary activity and establishment size (floor space), 2019
Table 15.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with water heating by primary activity, building size and number of floors (number of buildings), 2019
Table 15.2
Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with water heating by primary activity and establishment size (number of establishments), 2019
Table 16.1
(Revised) Buildings – Primary fuel types for buildings with water heating by primary activity, building size and number of floors (floor space), 2019
Table 16.2
Establishments – Primary fuel types for establishments with water heating by primary activity and establishment size (floor space), 2019
Table 17.1
Buildings – Characteristics by primary activity and building size, 2019
Table 17.2
Establishments – Characteristics by primary activity and establishment size, 2019
Table 18.1
Buildings – Characteristics by primary activity and year of construction, 2019
Table 18.2
Establishments – Characteristics by primary activity and year of construction, 2019
Table 19
Buildings – Characteristics by primary activity and number of floors, 2019

Please note that quality indicators (Q.I.) for energy intensities are available upon request.

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