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AHS: 2004 Metro Survey Data Released

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The dataset for the 2004 American Housing Survey metropolitan survey (AHS-MS) is now available on the HUD USER web site, https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html .

The web site currently has the microdata in SAS and comma-delimited ASCII formats, plus the q-code, table specifications, and instrument items book. More documentation, including descriptive statistics, file flattener program, topcodes, and value labels, will be added as soon as they are ready.

The 2004 AHS-MS covers these metropolitan areas:

SMSA Description Sample Size
0520 Atlanta, GA 5132
1680 Cleveland, OH 4722
2080 Denver, CO 4834
3280 Hartford, CT 4728
3480 Indianapolis, IN 4814
4920 Memphis, TN-AR-MS 4644
5560 New Orleans, LA 4516
5880 Oklahoma City, OK 4829
6280 Pittsburgh, PA 4723
6920 Sacramento, CA 4728
7040 Saint Louis, MO-IL 4741
7240 San Antonio, TX 4863
7600 Seattle, WA 4731

My thanks to my colleagues at the Census Bureau, HUD, and ICF Consulting for the work they did in preparing the dataset and checking the results.

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