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From: "Vandenbroucke, David A" <David.A.Vandenbroucke@hud.gov> on 11/5/2008 7:16:20 AM
Subject: AHS: Documentation of Dependent Interviewing

An updated document describing the different ways that dependent
interviewing is used in the American Housing Survey is now available for
download from the HUD USER web site,

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html#supplements

"Dependent interviewing" is the practice of using the results from
previous surveys or other questions to improve the accuracy and reduce
respondent burden of current surveys. Since the American Housing Survey
is longitudinal, it provides numerous opportunities to practice
dependent interviewing by using information collected about a housing
unit in previous years. While a limited form of dependent interviewing
was used from the very beginning of the AHS, this practice was expanded
considerably after the survey instrument switched to a computer-assisted
form in 1997. In the following surveys (1999 and later), the instrument
had access to the data recorded in previous surveys and could thus
supply the Field Representatives with the information needed for
dependent interviewing.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890

I disclaim any disclaimers.



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From: "Vandenbroucke, David A" <David.A.Vandenbroucke@hud.gov> on 11/6/2008 2:31:37 PM
Subject: AHS 2005 Descriptive Statistics Updated

I recently discovered that when we updated the 2005 American Housing
Survey national file in December 2006, we did not update the descriptive
statistics file. This has caused some difficulty for users who are
trying to match their own computations against the descriptives on our
web site. I have thus updated the descriptives archive, at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html .

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david.a.vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890

I disclaim any disclaimers.



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