DOWNLOAD Reports | Date Revised | File Type | File Size |
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2007 American Housing Survey for U.S | 6.82 MB | ||
2005 American Housing Survey for U.S | 4.02 MB | ||
2003 American Housing Survey for U.S | 3.89 MB | ||
2001 American Housing Survey for the U.S. | 8895 KB | ||
1999 American Housing Survey for the U.S. | 3809 KB | ||
Census reports on AHS metro surveys | HTML link | ||
1997 American Housing Survey for the U.S. | 3287 KB | ||
American Housing Survey-Metropolitan Sample Assessment Project | 433 KB | ||
Printed Reports back to 1994 from the Census Bureau, no questionnaire | HTML link | ||
Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) reports | HTML link |
DOWNLOAD Codebooks | Date Revised | File Type | File Size |
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Codebook for the American Housing Survey; Public Use File: 1997 and later | 03/31/11 | 2.46 MB | |
ASCII version of the data dictionary from the AHS codebook | 04/30/09 | *.txt | 915 KB |
Codebook Volume 1; 1984-1995 | 08/02 | HTML link | Multiple Files |
Codebook Volume 2; includes new items for 1995-96, layouts for 1984-96, no questionnaire | 9/23/98 | *.doc | 502 KB |
DOWNLOAD Edited Data from Interviews (microdata) | Date Revised | File Type | File Size |
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Metropolitan 1998; includes Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Cincinnati, Houston, Minneapolis, Norfolk/Newport News, Oakland, Providence, Rochester, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose, Tampa, Washington, DC, | 1/7/00 | HTML link | |
National 1997 | 3/24/99 | HTML link | |
Metropolitan 1996; includes Atlanta, Cleveland, Hartford, Indianapolis, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Sacramento, Saint Louis, Seattle | 3/20/98 | *.exe | 7057 KB |
National 1995; with extra samples for Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Northern New Jersey, Philadelphia | 7/21/97 | *.exe | 12297 KB |
Metropolitan 1995; includes Charlotte, Columbus, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio | 6/20/97 | *.exe | 6242 KB expands to 93 MB |
National 1978; complete file including data on disabilities | 6/3/04 | *.exe | 9598 KB expands to 175 MB |
COMPUTER PROGRAMS | Date Revised | File Type | File Size |
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User-Supplied Programs (Download Zip Version here) | 08/24/07 | *.exe *.zip | 763 KB expands to 1.45 MB 717KB |
SUPPLEMENTAL DATA | Date Revised | File Type | File Size |
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Census tracts in each metro survey zone | 8/31/00 | *.exe | 138 KB expands to 1 MB |
Income limits, poverty levels, fair market rents, and median incomes for the units in the 1997 AHS | 9/14/99 | HTML link | |
Property Owners and Managers (POMS), 1995 | 3/13/97 | HTML link | |
Rental Dynamics Weight, 1985-92 | 3/7/97 | HTML link |
DOCUMENTS |
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Printed reports, 1973 to Present; each includes questionnaire: call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691 |
Codebook Volume 1; includes most items for 1973-96, and 1985 questionnaire |
Codebook Volume2; Supplement for 1984-96 |
METROPOLITAN DATA |
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American Housing Survey (AHS) Metropolitan Microdata Files - 1974-1983 and 1984-2004 (ON DVD), order online or call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas on CD-ROM 1998 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas on CD-ROM 1993-94 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas 1988-92 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas 1984-87 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas 1983 (datatape only), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas 1982 (datatape only), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas 1980 (datatape only), order online or call HUD USER. |
Microdata on CD-ROM or tape, late 1970s to Present: call the Census Bureau 301-457-4100 |
AHS Microdata on Metropolitan Areas for 1974 and 1976-88 are available from the National Archives. |
AHS NATIONAL DATA |
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AHS National Data 1995-1996 Data (CD ROM), Reports, & Code Books 1995 National, 1995 Metro, 1996 Metro, order online or call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691. |
AHS National Data 1997 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER 1-800-245-2691. |
AHS National Data 1989-93 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS National Data 1985-89 (CD ROM), order online or call HUD USER. |
AHS National Data for 1973-81, 1983, 1985, and 1987 are available from the National Archives. |
After downloading the data, check this site periodically for notice of errors and revisions.
1997
Copies of the 1997 national file created before 7/98 have preliminary, unweighted data for about 10 percent of the cases in the 1997 American Housing Survey national sample. The data are subject to revision and should not be considered final. Some edits and allocations are not complete, and data are missing for some of the variables. There are known problems that have not been completely corrected as well as problems not yet discovered. No conclusions or inferences should be drawn from the data. Some data are suppressed, topcoded, or recoded to ensure that the confidentiality of individual responses is protected.
1996
Copies of the 1996 Metropolitan created before 3/20/98 identify central cities (METRO=1) only in Cleveland, Sacramento and St. Louis. Later files now show the central cities in all areas.
Copies of the 1996 Metropolitan created before 2/12/98 have NUNITS=0 (& very rarely 2) when it should be 1 or 99. However NUNIT2 was correct.
Copies of the 1996 Metropolitan created before 1/26/98 file have the code 5775 in fields SMSA and PMSA, for all cases in the Sacramento area. This is the code for Oakland, but the data do come from Sacramento (correct code: 6920). Oakland will be surveyed in 1998. The revised file has code 6920.
1995
Copies of the 1995 National Data created before 5/9/97 have some interviews (with a total weight of about 1.8 million homes) misclassified as Suburb instead of Central City. Other analyses are not significantly affected, even Metro/Nonmetro or Rural/Urban. The revised tape shows 33.5 million units in Central Cities (where the variable metro=1).
Copies of the 1995 Metropolitan Data created before 6/20/97 have errors in the amount of income: zero income is shown for many households where income was not answered (so the file shows many more low income people than is correct). Missing income is filled in by allocation in later versions of the file, as described on page xiii of Codebook vol. 1, mentioned above.
Copies of the 1995 National Data created before 7/21/97 wrongly show $0 for housing costs of most subsidized units with "other federal subsidy" or "state or local subsidy." Thus too many units appear with $0 housing costs (4.2 million was wrong; 2.3 million is correct), and too few units with other costs. The revised file also gives more detail on lot sizes over 10 acres and identifies more suburban cases in the 6 areas listed above (see revised Codebook Vol. 2). The publication is being reissued.
The 1995 National Data include extra cases to allow separate analyses of 6 Metropolitan Areas: Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Northern NJ, and Philadelphia. These 6 broad areas involve 18 SMSA codes, which cover all cases except: Joliet City outside Chicago, and non-urbanized areas in Los Angeles and in Orange County NY. See page 6 of Codebook vol. 2 for the codes (ignore 5960-Orlando, listed by mistake) and comments on weighting.