2004 AHS Metro Survey
This document provides a brief introduction to the 2004 Metropolitan
Survey dataset of the American Housing Survey.
- Click here to download
the 2004 data in SAS Xport Format. The file is a self-extracting
(*.exe, 12.9 MB) file, which expands to just over 98 meg.
Updated on 11/02/05.
- Click here to download
the 2004 metro data in ASCII format. The file is a self-extracting
(*.exe, 23.5 MB) file that is a little over 23 meg in size,
and expands to 8 files of size just over 400 meg. The data
are in comma-delimited format. The first record in each
file is a comma-delimited list of the variable names, in
order. Updated on 11/02/05 .
- Click here to download
the computer script (*.exe, 503 KB) that embodied the survey
instrument (The Q Code).
- Click here to download
Census Bureau's table specifications (*.exe, 79.5 KB) for
its reports.
- The instrument items file
reproduces all of the questions, prompts, and other information
displayed during the course of an interview. Note that the
fills, skip patterns, and branches built into the computer
instrument make this document somewhat difficult to follow.
However, the document does include all of the text used
in the course of the interview. (Zipped MS-Word file, 167
KB.)
- Click
here to download the SAS “file flattener”
program which will convert the SAS data to a single file
format in SAS. This program is customized for the 2004 Metro
data. The size of the file is a little more than 7 KB.
- Comparer Files
(*.zip, 478 KB): This zip archive contains documents that
compare the 2004 AHS results to those of the previous survey
for each metropolitan area. These files were produced as
part of the quality control process and are provided to
help users understand the changes in the AHS datasets. They
should not be considered official publications.
- Descriptive Statistics (*.zip,
586 KB): This archive contains descriptive statistics by
metro area (SMSA) for the 2004 American Housing Survey Metropolitan
Sample (09/06/2005 release). These are intended to help
analysts verify that they have set up the microdata files
correctly. Statistics are provided for both the 8-file format
distributed by HUD and the file produced by the "file
flattener" utility. Descriptive statistics (minimum,
mean, maximum, and sum) are provided in weighted and unweighed
forms, by SMSA, for all numeric variables. Frequency distributions
are provided for all character variables (not by SMSA).
Updated on 11/02/05.
- Income Limits (updated on 5/3/07) (*.zip,
286 KB): This file contains estimates of Fair Market Rents
(FMRs), income limits, area median incomes, and poverty
levels for the records in the public use microdata of the
American Housing Survey metropolitan sample for 2004. The
data in this file can be matched with the AHS 2004 national
file by using the CONTROL and SMSA variables.
- Topcodes File (*.xls,
225 KB): Certain variables are edited to protect the confidentiality
of households with unusually high or low values. This MS-Excel
spreadsheet lists the variables that are top- or bottomcoded.
For each variable, the coding rule, maximum values, and
minimum values are provided.
- Value Labels (*.zip,
35 KB): This zip archive contains code to add value labels
to the character variables in the SAS version of the 2004
AHS dataset.
- AllTabs archive (*.zip,
708 KB): This zip archive contains text files of selected
tables similar to the AHS printed reports. These were created
by ICF Consulting as part of the quality control process.
They are provided to give users a preliminary look at the
data. They should not be considered official Census
or HUD tabulations. There is one file for each of the metropolitan
areas in the 2004 survey.
SURVEY DOCUMENTATION
Please download the Codebook
for the American Housing Survey; Public Use File: 1997
and later (*.pdf).
SMSA |
Description |
Sample
Size |
0520 |
Atlanta,
GA |
5132 |
1680 |
Cleveland,
OH |
4722 |
2080 |
Denver,
CO |
4834 |
3280 |
Hartford,
CT |
4728 |
3480 |
Indianapolis,
IN |
4814 |
4920 |
Memphis,
TN-AR-MS |
4644 |
5560 |
New
Orleans, LA |
4516 |
5880 |
Oklahoma
City, OK |
4829 |
6280 |
Pittsburgh,
PA |
4723 |
6920 |
Sacramento,
CA |
4728 |
7040 |
Saint
Louis, MO-IL |
4741 |
7240 |
San
Antonio, TX |
4863 |
7600 |
Seattle,
WA |
4731 |
Published Survey Results
Atlanta,
GA (*.pdf, 2.69 MB) |
Cleveland,
OH (*.pdf, 2.64 MB) |
Denver,
CO (*.pdf, 2.66 MB) |
Hartford,
CT (*.pdf, 2.61 MB) |
Indianapolis,
IN (*.pdf, 2.64 MB) |
Memphis,
TN-AR-MS (*.pdf, 2.64 MB) |
New
Orleans, LA (*.pdf, 2.65 MB) |
Oklahoma
City, OK (*.pdf, 2.63 MB) |
Pittsburgh,
PA (*.pdf, 2.43 MB) |
Sacramento,
CA (*.pdf, 2.65 MB) |
Saint
Louis, MO-IL (*.pdf, 2.65 MB) |
San
Antonio, TX (*.pdf, 2.67 MB) |
Seattle,
WA (*.pdf, 2.65 MB) |
Major Changes in the 2004 AHS
Income:
Whether or not a resident received SSI payments is no longer
recorded in the variable QWELF (response category) along
with public assistance or welfare payments. Now the receipt
of SSI is tallied by itself in a new variable QSSI. (response
category). The variable QWELF still exists but no longer
includes SSI payments.
Alterations and Replacements:
Question HMR 7b was eliminated from the qcode. This question
asked, “Was that wall-to-wall carpeting installed
over existing, finished flooring, or was that put down over
bare sub-flooring, such as concrete or unfinished wood?”
It was asked if the respondent had indicated in HMR 7a that
they had installed wall-to-wall carpeting (CARPET). In the
past the combination of HMR 7a and HMR 7b produced the variables
SUBFL (carpet installed), SUBFLWK (who did the work), and
SUBFLAM (amount spent) for wall-to-wall carpet installed
over sub-flooring. It also produced the variables FINFL
(carpet installed), FINFLWK (who did the work), and FINFLAM
(amount spent) for wall-to-wall carpet installed over existing,
finished flooring. The variables SUBFL, SUBFLWK, SUBFLAM,
FINFL, FINFLWK, and FINFLAM no longer exist. In 2004 the
new variables CARPET (carpet installed), CARPTWK (who did
the work), and CARPTAM (amount spend) exist for all units
that installed carpet regardless of the type of flooring
the carpet was installed over.
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