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Several new zip archives have been added to the 2004 AHS page on HUD
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https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html 

Comparer Files This zip archive contains documents that compare the
2004 AHS results to those of the previous survey for each metropolitan
area. These files were produced as part of the quality control process
and are provided to help users understand the changes in the AHS
datasets. They should not be considered official publications.  There
is one MS-Word document for each metro area in the survey.

Descriptive Statistics
This archive contains descriptive statistics by metro area (SMSA) for
the 2004 American Housing Survey Metropolitan Sample (06/07/2005
release). These are intended to help analysts verify that they have
set up the microdata files correctly.  Statistics are provided for
both the 8-file format distributed by HUD and the file produced by the
"file flattener" utility. Descriptive statistics (minimum, mean,
maximum, and sum) are provided in weighted and unweighed forms, by
SMSA, for all numeric variables. Frequency distributions are provided
for all character variables (not by SMSA).

Income Limits
This file contains estimates of Fair Market Rents (FMRs), income
limits, area median incomes, and poverty levels for the records in the
public use microdata of the American Housing Survey metropolitan
sample for 2004. The data in this file can be matched with the AHS
2004 national file by using the CONTROL and SMSA variables.  The data
are in a single comma-delimited file.

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