ACS 2005 Recent Mover Rent Calculation for

The following information provides details on how the 2005 ACS Recent Mover Median Rent of was developed for using the publically releasable distributions from the 2005 ACS.

User Note

In computing recent mover rents, HUD actually uses data on rent distributions that are prohibited from public release under Title XIII to protect the confidentiality of respondents. The distributions used in this demonstration are rounded versions of the actual, protected data.

The rounding scheme is as follows:

0, count = 0
1 to 7, count = 4
all other counts are rounded to the nearest 5 (e.g., 10, 15, 20, 25, etc.)

CALCULATIONS USING THE ROUNDED DATA MAY NOT PRODUCE THE SAME RESULT AS CALCULATIONS USING THE PROTECTED DATA. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUD'S ACTUAL RESULTS AND THOSE DEMONSTRATED HERE IS INVERSELY RELATED TO THE SIZE OF THE AREA. THAT IS, THE LARGER THE AREA, THE CLOSER THE CALCULATION BASED ON THE ROUNDED DATA IS LIKELY TO BE TO THE CENSUS BASE RENT COMPUTED FROM THE PROTECTED DATA.

Recent Mover and Standard Quality Rents

HUD uses rents for recent movers in standard quality units in determining the 2005 Intermediate Rent. "Standard Quality" units and rents are determined by limiting the full ACS sample by including only responses meeting the following criteria:

a. Occupied rental units paying cash rent
b. Specified renter ? on 10 acres or less
c. with full plumbing
d. with full kitchen
e. built before 1999
f. meals not included in rent "Recent Mover" rents are determined by further limiting the "Standard Quality" sample with the following additional criterion: g. moved in within the last two years

The 2005 ACS did not include a question that could be used to filter public or assisted housing from the rental distributions, however HUD is required to ensure that FMRs exclude non-market rental housing in their computation. Therefore, HUD excludes all units falling below a specified rent level determined from public housing rents in HUD's program databases as likely to be either assisted housing or otherwise at a below-market rent (perhaps due to quality problems not otherwise captured by the survey questions).

The "public housing" rent cut-off for in 2005 is .

A Microsoft Excel file containing the unsummarized versions of the publicly releasable recent mover 2-bedroom rent distributions for is available here.

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50th Percentile 2005 ACS Recent Mover Rent -

The following table and calculations demonstrate how the 50th percentile 2005 ACS recent mover rent is determined for using the public distribution of recent mover rents.

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Portion of Recent Mover Rent Distribution	Gross Rent Dollar Range	Number of Units	Percent of Eligible Distribution	Cumulative Percent
Units below interval containing public housing rent level of	$0 to	0	Not in Distribution	Not in Distribution
Units in interval containing public housing rent level of	to	0.00	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: / (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 366] ###.0%	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: / (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 367] ###.0%
Units below interval containing 50th percentile recent mover rent of $50	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: (null) + 1 [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 372] $#,### to $1	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: (null) - 0 [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 373] ###,###,###	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: (null) - 0 [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 374] ###.0%	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: (null) / (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 375] ###.0%
Units in interval containing 50th percentile recent mover rent of $50	$0 to $99	0	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: / (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 380] ###.0%	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: + (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 381] ###.0%
Units above interval containing 50th percentile recent mover rent of $50	$100 or more		ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: (null) / (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 388] ###.0%	ODBiC Error: Non-numeric expression: + (null) [Error in file 2008_cbsasub_acs05_rm_rent.odb line 389] ###.0%
Total Units Above Public Housing Rent in Recent Mover Rent Distribution

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The Public Housing Rent level of falls on the low end of a rent distribution cell, so all units in this cell are counted as recent mover units having rents above the Public Housing rent level.

In , the 50th percentile recent mover rent falls within an empty distribution cell so the 50th percentile recent mover rent is computed as the average of the lower limit of the empty cell ($0) and the lower limit of the next cell containing data ($100) rounded to the nearest dollar. That is:

50th percentile recent mover rent = ($0 + $100 / 2 = $50.

Problems or questions? Contact Peter.B.Kahn@hud.gov.