Re: AHS: Electric Billing Variables

Christopher,

The gateway for AHS data is now on the Census Bureau's web site, http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs.html. You can download the public use files and codebook from there. You can also use the table creator to make custom summary tables.

For most uses, you shouldn't need to do much cleaning of the data.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
451 7th Street SW, Room 8222
Washington, DC 20410

Email david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
Phone 202-402-5890

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From: AHS [mailto:ahs@huduser.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: AHS: Electric Billing Variables

From: Christopher Brancart

I need to learn more about HUDuser's access to AHS; I'm new to data analysis and need an introduction and a primer.

How/where do I find that guidance? What do I download data and clean it for analysis? Where do I find code book for what's avaialble?

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From: AHS [mailto:ahs@huduser.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 11:21 AM
Subject: AHS: Electric Billing Variables

Trying to use the following variables in the 2013 AHS Data:

BILLGE
BILLOE
BILLFE
BILLTE
BILLWE
BILLWT

I thought these variables were in the file newhouse, but they appear not to be in the publicly available data set. Am I overlooking them, do they have to be calculated somehow, or are they not publicly available?

Thanks,
Douglas White