ACS 2005 Standard Quality Rent Calculation for
St. Croix Island, VI

The following information provides details on how the 2005 ACS Standard Quality Median Rent of and the 2000 Census Standard Quality Median Rent of and the update factor of 1.18 was developed for St. Croix Island, VI using the publically releasable distributions for .

User Note

In computing state based standard qualtiy 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.

Standard Quality Rents

HUD uses rents for standard quality units to generate update factors. "Standard Quality" units and rents are determined by limiting the full Census 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

Neither the 2000 Census not the 2005 ACS included 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 following table shows the percentage of each state contributing to the state weighted average 2005 ACS Median Rent for St. Croix Island, VI

State Contribution Information for St. Croix Island, VI
State 2005 ACS Median SQ Rent Population Percentage Contribution

Therefore, the state weighted average 2005 ACS Median Standard Quality Rent for St. Croix Island, VI is = = = $0

The following table shows the percentage of each state contributing to the state weighted average 2000 Census Median Rent for St. Croix Island, VI

State Contribution Information for St. Croix Island, VI
State 2000 Census Median SQ Rent Population Percentage Contribution

Therefore, the state weighted average 2000 Census Median Standard Quality Rent for St. Croix Island, VI is = = = $0

Computing the 2000 - 2005 State Standard Quality Update Factor - St. Croix Island, VI

The 2000 to 2005 update factor is calculated as the ratio of the 2005 ACS standard quality median rent to the 2000 Cesus standard quality median rent for . Therefore the 2000 - 2005 update factor is:

= 2005 Standard Quality Median Rent / 2000 Standard Quality Median Rent

= $0 / $0

=

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0.

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The difference between the actual 2000 - 2005 update factor of 1.18 and the demonstration update factor of 0. computed here is due to the effects of computational rounding and the use of the rounding performed on the public distributions as described above.

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