In the course of collecting sample survey information pertaining to the electric power industry at the Energy Information Administration, the need to utilized non-observed explanatory variable data to predict for other variables became apparent. This is particularly the case with the relationship between natural gas receipts and consumption at electric generating facilities. This paper quantifies the additional variance of prediction which arises from using predicted regressor values, and explores some of the results as applicable to the natural gas receipts and consumption at electric generating facilities as an example.