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SUBJECT:  FY 1992 HUD Very Low-Income and Low-Income

            Limits 



     The data file for FY 1992 contains the Very Low-Income and Lower-Income

limits for every county in the nation.  This means that multi-county

metropolitan areas will have a record for each county, all with the same

income limits.  



	"LIM92ALL" is a normal ASCII data file that can be read by a variety of software.  The LIM91ALL file has 3211 3-line records with the following file layout:



     Line #     Format   Data Element

       1        2x       2 spaces

                A16      State abbrev.& County Name 

                 5X      5 unused spaces

                I10      MSA code

                I10      FIPS code (5 unused spaces, 2 digits

                         for state and 3 digits for county)

                I10      FY 1992 median family income estimate

                I10      FY 1992 relevant State nonmetro median

                         income

       2        8I10     Section 8 1-8 person Very Low inocme

                         limits

       3        8I10     Section 8 1-8 person Lower Income limits





     The name field is left-justified and the number fields are

right-justified.