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Re: Vouchers and other subsidies

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1. You will find that if VCHER=1, then PROJ will never equal 1.

2. There is nothing in the instrument that forces the relationship among VCHER, SUBRNT, and REPHA. However, I wouldn't characterize your findings as "some additional type of subsidy." Because respondents have difficulty identifying assisted housing, the questions we as have a fair amount of overlap. Thus, if a household receives a voucher (VCHER), another way of looking at that is to say they receive a subsidy (SUBRNT). In order to participate in the program, they probably have to report their income (REPHA). We ask the three questions to give the respondents different opportunities to reveal that they are assisted. "Yes" answers to those three questions may well reflect only a single source of assistance.

--Dav
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04/23/03 02:19 PM
Please respond to rdrew



From: American Housing Survey (AHS) ListServ <ahs@huduser.gov>

Has anyone else noticed that all AHS respondents who report receiving a
rent voucher (VCHER=1) also report another subsidy qualifier (PROJ=1,
SUBRNT=1 or REPHA=1 or 2)?  Is this intentional (i.e. the question gets
asked only when a positive response is given to one of the other subsidy
questions), or is it just coincidence that those with vouchers all report
some additional type of subsidy?  Any insight would be helpful, thanks.

Rachel Drew
Research Assistant
Joint Center for Housing Studies
617.495.9296
rdrew@gsd.harvard.edu