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AHS 2007 Preview on the Web

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The 2007 American Housing Survey is still in the field, and you won't
see the data until this time next year, but we do have a preview of the
survey on the HUD USER web site, at
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html .  Here is what you
can find on that page:

* The 2007 "items booklet."  This is the document that we send to the
Office of Management and Budget as part of the survey clearance process.
It lists all of the questions and responses in the survey instrument.
It's the closest we come to a human-readable paper questionnaire these
days.

* The Spanish translation of the items booklet.  Although there is no
Spanish-language survey instrument for the AHS, the Census Bureau
distributed this translation of the items booklet to its field
representatives, as a guide for conducting interviews in Spanish.

* The 2007 instrument software.  This is a working copy of the 2007 AHS
training instrument that you can download and run on your Microsoft
Windows computer.  You can use it to walk through an AHS interview,
screen by screen, seeing just what the field representative would see.
It saves no data.  This software is offered as-is, with no support
provided by the Census Bureau or the software publisher, and before you
can download it you must agree not to use it to collect data.

Dav Vandenbroucke
Senior Economist
U.S. Dept. HUD
david_a._vandenbroucke@hud.gov
202-402-5890