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I have added some files to the AHS user-supplied program archive. The new files are SAS code files that will help you import datasets from the 1973-1993 national data files into SAS. You can download the archive from the HUD USER web site, at https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html

Below is a summary of all the programs currently in the archive. If you have any programs that you would like to contribute, please contact me.

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

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AHS2001INC.DCT, RD2001.DO
These two files can be used to read the 2001 income limits file into STATA.
The comments in AHS2001INC.DCT indicate that the same record layout can be
used for the 1997 and 1999 income limits files. [07/10/2002]

AHS85.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the 1985
American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset. See the
comments in the program file for details. THIS PROGRAM WORKS ONLY WITH THE
CD-ROM DATED FEBRUARY 1991.  Earlier CD-ROMS use different record layouts.
[03/24/2000]

AHS87.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the 1995
American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset. See the
comments in the program file for details. THIS PROGRAM WORKS WITH THE
NOVEMBER 1991 CD-ROM ONLY.  Earlier CD-ROMs use a different record
layout.[03/24/2000]

AHS89.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the 1989
American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset. See the
comments in the program file for details. NOTE:  THIS PROGRAM WORKS ONLY
WITH THE JUNE 1995 CD-ROM.  Earlier versions used a different record
layout. [03/24/2000]

AHS91.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the
1991 American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset.
See the comments in the program file for details. [03/24/2000,
revised 10/03/2002]

AHS93.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the
1993 American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset.
See the comments in the program file for details. [03/24/2000]

AHS9394MS.EXE
This file is itself a self-extracting zip archive.  It contains SAS
programs to set up the 1993 and 1994 metropolitan survey data from the CD-
ROM.

AHS95.SAS
A program to convert the HUD public use microdata file for the 1995
American Housing Survey (national sample) to a SAS dataset. See the
comments in the program file for details. [03/06/2000, revised 07/10/2002]

NAT73-93.EXE
This file is itself a self-extracting zip archive.  It contains two sets of
SAS code files to aid in importing the national datasets from 1973 to 1993
into SAS.  The files have these forms:

labYYa.sas:  Where "yy" is the year (for example, lab73a.sas).  These
files provide variable labels for the the variables in the
dataset in a given year.

natYYb.sas:  Where "yy" is the year (for example, nat73b.sas).  These
files provide the record layouts for each survey dataset, in a
form ready to be pasted into a SAS INPUT statement.

Note that the files in this archive are not ready-to-run SAS programs.  You
will still need to write a DATA step around them.  However, they do save
you the tedious parts of coding variable layouts and labels.  These files
were contributed by Scott Susin of the Census Bureau
(scott.j.susin@census.gov). [06/27/2003]