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AHS Documentation Update

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The HUD USER web page for the 2002 AHS ( https://www.huduser.gov/datasets/ahs.html ) now has a link to download a value label package. This package will allow SAS users to attach formats to most of the AHS character variables, translating the various codes into English labels. Since the format definitions themselves are in a text file, non-SAS users may find them useful for copying and pasting value labels into whatever statistical package you use.

As I type this, the link on the AHS 2002 page says "AHS 2001 Value Labels File." The "2001" part is a typo, which will no doubt be corrected shortly.

We have also updated the ASCII data dictionary to use the information from the latest release of the codebook. You can download that directly from https://www.huduser.gov/datasets/ahs/data_dictionary.txt . There are links to it on the 2002 and "More AHS Data and Publications" pages of the HUD USER web site.

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