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Just Released: Special Tabulations Data Retrieval System

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The Economic and Market Analysis Division (EMAD)
"Special Tabulations" data retrieval system contains data
from the 1990 Census and 2000 Census. This system
produces tabular statistical summaries of counts of
households by tenure, by income intervals, by age of
householder, by size of household, by housing conditions
as of the 1990 Census and the 2000 Census, for select
geographic areas in the United States. This system allows
a user to extract data for both 1990 and 2000 to conduct
a longitudinal analysis of changes in a particular area.

These special cross tabulations of decennial census data
are the most detailed available for a qualitative
analysis of housing demand based on incomes and age of
householder. These data are a key element in the
allocation formulae for the Section 8 and the Section 202
rental assistance programs, as well as a key element in
EMAD qualitative demand market analysis activities for
review of program applications and multifamily mortgage
insurance applications submitted to FHA.

These data have been developed for the assistance and
guidance of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) in its operations. However, the
information contained therein may also prove useful to
planners, developers, appraisers, third-party market
analysts and mortgagees, and others concerned with local
housing conditions. These data do not purport to make
determinations regarding the acceptability of any
particular mortgage insurance or rental assistance
proposals that may be under consideration in a particular
locality or the housing market area.

These data are presently available nowhere else. The 1990
data were extracted from the 1990 Decennial Census
Summary Tape File 4 Tables HB59 and HB60. The 2000 data
were extracted from the 2000 Decennial Census by the
Bureau of the Census under an inter-agency agreement
especially for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development.

The system contains data for all counties and county
equivalents in the United States, places with populations
of 50,000 (subject to disclosure requirements), the
nation, all states and the District of Columbia, and MSAs
and PMSAs (except those in New England) based on the 1999
OMB definitions in effect at the time of the 2000 Census.
Year 2000 data are also provided for selected areas in
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

A detailed description of the exact content and format of
the data base is presented in the Help section of the
system.

These data are in the public domain. However, the
Department (HUD) requests that no changes be made to the
format of the data reproduced, in whole or part; and that
any reproduction, printed or electronic, include the
following citation that identifies title of the data
system and HUD and the Census Bureau as the author and
sources of the material.

"These data are from HUD's EMAD Special Tabulations Data
Base on huduser.gov. The data were developed by the U.S.
Census Bureau under an interagency agreement funded by
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The
data for 1990 are from the 1990 Decennial Census Summary
Tape File 4 Tables HB59 and HB60. The data for 2000 were
extracted from a special run of the 2000 Decennial
Census."

You can view the Special Tabulations on huduser.gov at
https://www.huduser.gov/datasets/spectabs.html Questions
regarding these data and the system may be addressed to
Mr. Bruce D. Atkinson at 202-708-0590 and at
mailto:Bruce_D._Atkinson@hud.gov.

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