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AHS: Updated 2001 and 2002 Value Label Packages

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The value label packages for the 2001 and 2002 American Housing Survey datasets have been updated on the HUD USER web site. These packages are sets of files that create SAS formats for most of the character variables in the AHS datasets. If you use these packages with your SAS datasets, your tables will show labels in English rather than numeric codes.

The packages were updated to fix an error in the labels for the allocation variables (all of those "J" variables). The previous versions of the packages reversed the meanings of values '1' and '2.' The correct coding for the allocation variables is:

0 No change
1 Other edit change
2 Changed by hot deck
Blank Not reported

Note that the current version of the codebook (version 1.50) has the same error in it. We will correct this the next time the codebook is revised.

The URL for the 2001 AHS web page is:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html

The URL for the 2002 AHS web page is:
https://www.huduser.gov/datasets/ahs.html

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