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From: David Kruse <dkruse@aacog.com> on 6/3/2003 9:15:50 AM
Subject: AHS and SAS

Good Morning,

Is there anybody out there that has or knows of SAS input statements already
made for the pre-1995 AHS data and how they might be obtained?

I am new to the list and we are planning to take a longitudinal look at the
housing picture here in San Antonio this summer.

David Kruse, AICP
Alamo Area Council of Govts
dkruse@aacog.com



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From: scott.j.susin@census.gov on 6/3/2003 10:03:48 AM
Subject: Re: AHS and SAS




I have put together SAS input statements for the 1974-1993 AHS national
files. I'd be happy to send them to anyone who'd like them. I believe
that there are also some input statements (perhaps 1985- ?) in the user
contributed programs section of the HUD User AHS web site.

David, which years do you need?





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Subject: AHS and SAS

06/03/2003 09:47 AM


Please respond to David
Kruse




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

Good Morning,

Is there anybody out there that has or knows of SAS input statements
already
made for the pre-1995 AHS data and how they might be obtained?

I am new to the list and we are planning to take a longitudinal look at the
housing picture here in San Antonio this summer.

David Kruse, AICP
Alamo Area Council of Govts
dkruse@aacog.com













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From: david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov on 6/3/2003 12:37:50 PM
Subject: Re: AHS and SAS

David Kruse (dkruse@aacog.com) asks:

>>Is there anybody out there that has or knows of SAS input statements already
made for the pre-1995 AHS data and how they might be obtained?<<

If you go to the "More AHS Data and Publications" page of HUD USER
(https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html ), you will find a link to
"User-Supplied Programs." If you download that self-extracting zip file, you
will get SAS programs to set up the national files from 1985 through 1995, plus
one to read the 1993-94 metro survey CD. I don't have any programs for reading
the other metro surveys into SAS.
If anyone has such programs (or for SPSS, STATA, etc.), I would love to be able
to add them to the archive.
Dav Vandenbroucke
Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-708-1060 ext. 5890


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From: david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov on 6/2/2003 10:56:25 AM
Subject: AHS: Opinions sought on proposed changes.

We are working on changes to the content of the 2005 national survey. As I
have mentioned here before, the 2005 survey will feature sampling improvements
designed to do a better job of reaching manufactured housing and assisted
living units. We are also going to make some changes to the income module
because of what Scott Susin found in his recent paper comparing AHS and CPS
income measures.

While we're at it, we are looking at a few other areas to see if we can
rephrase questions to make them work better, and we are considering dropping
some questions that don't yield useful information. I would like your opinion
on one of these proposed changes.

We have a series of questions about structural conditions. At one time these
were "observation" items, in which the interviewer would fill in the answer
based on what he saw. After 1997, they became respondent questions. They are
not used in the ZADEQ recode of "adequate housing." We are considering
dropping them to reduce respondent burden. These are the variables:

EMISSR: missing roof materials
EHOLER: holes in roof
ESAGR: sagging roof
EMISSW: missing wall materials
ESLOPW: sloping walls
EBOARD: windows boarded up
EBROKE: broken windows
EBAR: windows covered with metal bars
ECRUMB: crumbling foundation

An alternative to dropping these completely would be to replace them with three
questions, one each on roofs, windows, and walls.

Are the current questions important to anyone's work? Would the proposed
alternative do as well? Please reply to me or to the mailing list, as you
like. Remember, to reply to the mailing list you have to include
ahs@huduser.gov in your address header.

Oh, by the way: the 2003 survey goes into the field today!

Dav Vandenbroucke
Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-708-1060 ext. 5890


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From: "Mark Obrinsky" <Mobrinsky@nmhc.org> on 6/2/2003 1:30:56 PM
Subject: OT: Research Analyst position

Dear Colleagues,

I am currently looking for a Research Analyst to assist me at the National
Multi Housing Council in a variety of duties. If you know of someone with the
right mix of skills who might be interested please let me know (or have them
email me) at mobrinsky@nmhc.org.

To a large degree, the scope and character of the position will expand to fit
the ability and interest of the individual Research Analyst (we are never at a
loss for important and interesting projects). In any case, the key
responsibility is tabulating and analyzing large microdata sets such as the
American Housing Survey (and the Current Population Survey). Experience in
working with these data sets would be ideal; experience with any large data
set would be helpful.

Beyond that, the RA will help me keep abreast of, and assist in undertaking
research on, important trends in the economy and the apartment industry.

For the right person, this position offers the opportunity to follow an
important, dynamic, and under-researched industry while gaining valuable
research experience in a flexible professional environment.

The official version of the position, approximately as it will be advertised,
is provided below.

Thanks.

Mark Obrinsky

 

RESEARCH ANALYST

Leading Washington-based real estate trade organization, representing
prominent apartment firms, seeks a research analyst to provide support of
diverse research activities. The individual will be responsible for assisting
the Vice President for Research/Chief Economist in analyzing industry trends,
maintaining market data, and conducting industry surveys. The ideal candidate
will be familiar with using statistical methods and software (e.g., Stata or
SAS) to analyze large data sets; experience with the American Housing Survey
or the Current Population Survey is a plus.

Candidate must possess excellent time management, organizational, and
communication skills. BA or BS required; advanced degree in Statistics,
Economics, or related field preferred. Competitive salary range plus excellent
benefits in a flexible working environment.


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From: "Dr.Phyllis Betts" <pbetts@memphis.edu> on 6/4/2003 4:05:29 AM
Subject: Re: AHS: Opinions sought on proposed changes.

At the University of Memphis we have a neighborhood inventory protocol that uses
the more detailed observational items; we included them deliberately to compare
particular neighborhoods with the AHS Memphis survey data. Our goal is to better
capture the nature and extent of neighborhood blight, with the idea of targeting
particular types of interventions (and the possibility, for example, of in-kind
contributions from corporate contractors) to particular structural problems. We
therefore find the detailed items quite useful. I realize, however, that this
is a
somewhat particularistic use of the data, but if other research/practitioner
centers are actively engaged in developing city-level interventions, other
cities
might continue to find the detailed items useful.

Phyllis Betts, Director
Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action (CBANA)
School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy
University of Memphis

ahslistserv@huduser.gov wrote:

> From: American Housing Survey (AHS) ListServ <ahs@huduser.gov>
>
> We are working on changes to the content of the 2005 national survey. As I
> have mentioned here before, the 2005 survey will feature sampling improvements
> designed to do a better job of reaching manufactured housing and assisted
> living units. We are also going to make some changes to the income module
> because of what Scott Susin found in his recent paper comparing AHS and CPS
> income measures.
>
> While we're at it, we are looking at a few other areas to see if we can
> rephrase questions to make them work better, and we are considering dropping
> some questions that don't yield useful information. I would like your opinion
> on one of these proposed changes.
>
> We have a series of questions about structural conditions. At one time these
> were "observation" items, in which the interviewer would fill in the answer
> based on what he saw. After 1997, they became respondent questions. They are
> not used in the ZADEQ recode of "adequate housing." We are considering
> dropping them to reduce respondent burden. These are the variables:
>
> EMISSR: missing roof materials
> EHOLER: holes in roof
> ESAGR: sagging roof
> EMISSW: missing wall materials
> ESLOPW: sloping walls
> EBOARD: windows boarded up
> EBROKE: broken windows
> EBAR: windows covered with metal bars
> ECRUMB: crumbling foundation
>
> An alternative to dropping these completely would be to replace them with
three
> questions, one each on roofs, windows, and walls.
>
> Are the current questions important to anyone's work? Would the proposed
> alternative do as well? Please reply to me or to the mailing list, as you
> like. Remember, to reply to the mailing list you have to include
> ahs@huduser.gov in your address header.
>
> Oh, by the way: the 2003 survey goes into the field today!
>
> Dav Vandenbroucke
> Economist
> U.S. Dept. HUD
> david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
> 202-708-1060 ext. 5890
>
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From: david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov on 6/5/2003 11:04:47 AM
Subject: AHS: Update on Online Reports

All of the AHS reports, from 1973 on (and that's all there are!), are available
for download in PDF format from the Census Bureau
(http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ahs.html ). The most recent additions are:

All the 1974 thru 1983 (H170) Annual Housing Survey Metropolitan reports
The (H 150) 1976 Annual Housing Survey reports D, E, and F
1973 reports A, B, C, D, E, and F
1974 reports A, B, C, D, E, and F
All the National Supplemental reports (H151)
All the Metropolitan Supplemental reports (H171)
All the CINCH reports(H151)

Most of the older reports are PDFs of scanned paper documents, and so they are
essentially image files. That means you can't cut and paste from them, and in
some cases they aren't all that easy to read. But they are the best digital
version that we have.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-708-1060 ext. 5890


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From: Bulbul_Kaul@abtassoc.com on 6/5/2003 11:17:22 AM
Subject: Housing Adequacy related questions

Couple of specific questions about the components of the housing quality
measure (ZADEQ)

Q1. How do we know that a unit has no electricity?

This is a component of the ZADEQ variable and the description of the
variable uses BUYE=1 to indicate that the unit has no electricity. The
variable BUYE=1, if "not used". Does this mean that electricity is not
used in the unit and thus we can conclude that the unit has no electricity?

Q 2. How do we know the question on fuses blown or breakers tripped (IFBLOW
and NUMBLOW) is limited to experiences within the last 90 days?

The composite measure suggests that this is the case. The questions prior
to the 1997 survey specify this condition but the codebook for the 1997+
surveys does not explicitly state this problem should have occurred in the
last 90 days. Are we to assume that these questions do indeed refer to
experiences within the past 90 days?

Thanks,

Bulbul Kaul
Abt Associates Inc.






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From: david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov on 6/5/2003 11:27:49 AM
Subject: OT: U.S. Housing Market Conditions, May 2003

The May 2003 edition of HUD PD&R's U.S. Housing Market Conditions report is
available for download from HUD USER, at
https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring03/index.html . This edition
covers statistics through the first quarter of 2003.

The topical piece is "The Importance of Demographic Trends to Housing," a
summary of three papers on demographic projection commissioned by PD&R. The
full set of papers is also downloadable from HUD USER, via
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/econdev/demographic_trends.html .

The regional section
(https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/spring03/regional.html ) includes
housing market profiles of these metropolitan areas:

Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Eugene-Springfield, Oregon
Fort Collins-Loveland, Colorado
Lafayette, Indiana
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lubbock, Texas
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Monroe, Louisiana
Nassau-Suffolk, New York
Reno, Nevada
Springfield, Missouri
Utica-Rome, New York

This issue also includes the 2002 annual index.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-708-1060 ext. 5890


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From: "Susan deFreese" <sdefreese@southernbank.net> on 6/5/2003 1:30:24 PM
Subject: Fair Housing Ad ?

The FDIC exam procedures on Advertising and Public Notices concerning the Fair
Housing ads states: "Additional guidelines on the use of the legend and size
requirements for the logotype may be found within the Dept. of Housing and
Urban Development's Fair Housing Act's implementing regulation." I have
searched HUD's website and cannot find the information. Does anyone know where
I can find the info?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great day,
Susan deFreese
V. P. - Chief Compliance Officer - CRA Officer
Southern Community Bancorp
254 West S. R. 436
Altamonte Springs, Florida 32714
Phone: 407.869.6607
Fax: 407.869.1940
E-mail: sdefreese@southernbank.net

The key to compliance success is to learn to do something right, then do it
right every time.




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From: Nazar <nazar428@airmail.net> on 6/5/2003 2:10:27 PM
Subject: fuses

The question in 2002 AHS-MS and 2003 AHS-N do ask if the problem has
occurred in tha past 3 months. I do not know about previous surveys.
Irene

>Q 2. How do we know the question on fuses blown or breakers tripped (IFBLOW
>and NUMBLOW) is limited to experiences within the last 90 days?
>
>The composite measure suggests that this is the case. The questions prior
>to the 1997 survey specify this condition but the codebook for the 1997+
>surveys does not explicitly state this problem should have occurred in the
>last 90 days. Are we to assume that these questions do indeed refer to
>experiences within the past 90 days?
>




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