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AHS 1999 & 2001 Income Limits File Updates

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The income limits files for the 1999 and 2001 AHS have been updated to correct an error in the poverty income (IPOV) calculation. When I updated the CPI array in the program, I didn't notice that the denominator in the inflation adjustment was hard-coded. Thus, we were dividing by the wrong value. The error affected IPOV only. The fair market rent and income limit values in the file are unchanged from earlier versions.

My thanks to Darryl Wills of USDA-ERS for bringing this problem to our attention.

You can download the corrected files from the 2001 and 1999 web pages of HUD USER:

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahs.html

As I write this, the revision dates on those pages have not been changed, but the links do point to the updated files.

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