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For many years, the AHS published volumes repeated the full set of
"occupied units" tables for the US total and 8 different subgroups.
Since the 1997 publication, only 5 subgoups have been published, with
Central Cities, Suburbs, and Outside MSA's tables dropped.  I would like
to see these tables brought back.  The reason for doing so now is more
than overcoming the incovenience of  having to do one's own tabulations
from the AHS public user file.  For these categories, 1990 definitions
are used in the published "occupied units" tables, but detailed
information can only be tabulated from the PU file for the old 1980
geography.  I'm sure that the tables I'm suggesting will no longer be
included in the paper report, and some sort of web publication would be
fine.  As it is now, those of us interested in information more detailed
than that available in the limited initial tables for these
deliniations, can only revert to using the 1980 geography.  In fact
using 1980 rather than 1990 deliniations makes little difference for
central city statistics, but often has a significant impact on those for
suburbs and non-msa areas.  Hopefully bringing back such tables would
not present a confidentially concern.  While less important, since
researchers could always produce their own, providing similar tables for
each Census region might also be worthwhile if it could be done easily.
In terms of web format, I would like to have both html and Acrobat, with
html my top pick if limited to a single choice.

Jim Mikesell
Senior Economist
Economic Research Service, USDA
mikesell@ers.usda.gov