U.S. Census Bureau
 Housing Vacancies and Homeownership (CPS/HVS)




Annual Statistics: 2005


Table B-3.  90-Percent Confidence Interval of Standard Errors of Vacancy Rates and
                    Homeownership Rates by State:  2005

                                                       90-Percent
                                                       Confidence
                                                       Interval (+/-)\1 of

                                           Rental          Homeowner        Homeownership
                                        vacancy rate      vacancy rate           rate

United States.....................                  0.3               0.1                 0.5

Alabama............................                 2.3               0.5                 1.8
Alaska...............................               1.5               0.5                 2.0
Arizona..............................               1.8               0.3                 1.8
Arkansas...........................                 2.0               0.5                 2.0
California...........................               0.5               0.2                 0.8
Colorado...........................                 1.6               0.5                 1.5
Connecticut..........................               1.2               0.3                 1.3
Delaware.............................               1.8               0.3                 1.5
District of Columbia............                    1.0               0.5                 1.6
Florida..............................               1.0               0.3                 1.0
Georgia..............................               1.5               0.5                 1.5
Hawaii...............................               1.2               0.3                 2.0
Idaho................................               1.8               0.5                 2.0
Illinois.............................               1.2               0.3                 1.2
Indiana..............................               2.0               0.5                 1.5
Iowa.................................               1.6               0.3                 1.3
Kansas...............................               1.8               0.5                 1.6
Kentucky.............................               1.8               0.5                 1.6
Louisiana...........................                2.0               0.5                 2.0
Maine................................               1.3               0.3                 1.5
Maryland.............................               1.2               0.3                 1.3
Massachusetts................                       1.2               0.3                 1.6
Michigan.............................               1.5               0.3                 1.2
Minnesota...........................                1.5               0.3                 1.2
Mississippi.........................                2.6               0.5                 2.0
Missouri.............................               1.6               0.5                 1.5
Montana.............................                2.0               0.3                 2.0
Nebraska............................                1.5               0.3                 1.6
Nevada..............................                1.3               0.5                 1.8
New Hampshire...................                    1.2               0.3                 1.3
New Jersey........................                  1.2               0.3                 1.5
New Mexico.....................                     1.8               0.5                 2.1
New York.............................               0.5               0.3                 1.0
North Carolina...................                   1.6               0.5                 1.5
North Dakota......................                  1.6               0.3                 2.0
Ohio.................................               1.3               0.3                 1.2
Oklahoma...........................                 2.0               0.5                 1.8
Oregon...............................               1.5               0.5                 1.8
Pennsylvania....................                    1.2               0.3                 1.2
Rhode Island.......................                 1.2               0.3                 1.6
South Carolina...................                   1.8               0.5                 1.8
South Dakota....................                    1.5               0.5                 1.6
Tennessee.........................                  1.6               0.3                 1.6
Texas................................               1.0               0.3                 1.0
Utah.................................               1.8               0.5                 2.0
Vermont..............................               1.2               0.2                 1.6
Virginia.............................               1.2               0.3                 1.3
Washington.........................                 1.2               0.3                 1.5
West Virginia........................               2.5               0.5                 1.6
Wisconsin..........................                 1.3               0.3                 1.5
Wyoming.............................                1.5               0.3                 1.8


\1 A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's reliability.  The larger the confidence interval is, in
     relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.



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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division
Last Revised: March 01, 2006