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




Annual Statistics: 2005


Table B-5.  Confidence Intervals for Standard Errors of Homeownership Rates for the United States by Age of Householder
                     and by Family Status:  2005

                                                              90-Percent Confidence Interval (+/-)\1 of Estimated Percentage for:

                                                                                                                            Two-or-more-               Single-person
                                                     Married-          Other families             One-person  households              per                            households
                                           United      couple
                                           States    families         Male       Female      Male        Female         Male      Female          Male       Female

Total                                          0.5         0.5         (X)          (X)       (X)           (X)          (X)         (X)            1.2          1.0

  Other family households...............       1.3        (X)           2.0          2.5      (X)           (X)          (X)         (X)           (X)          (X)
  One-person households.................       1.0        (X)          (X)          (X)        1.5           1.3         (X)         (X)           (X)          (X)
  Two-or-more-persons households........       2.1        (X)          (X)          (X)       (X)           (X)           2.8         3.3          (X)          (X)
   Less than 25 years...................       1.2         1.2          3.6          2.5       2.8           2.5         (X)         (X)            1.8          1.5
   25 to 29 years.......................       1.2         1.2          4.3          2.3       2.8           3.1         (X)         (X)            2.0          1.8
   30 to 34 years.......................       1.0         1.0          4.4          2.5       3.0           3.8         (X)         (X)            2.3          2.0
   35 to 39 years.......................       1.3         1.3          4.4          2.5       3.0           3.8         (X)         (X)            2.3          2.0
   40 to 44 years.......................       1.2         1.2          5.3          3.3       3.9           4.9         (X)         (X)            3.0          2.6
   45 to 49 years.......................       0.8         0.8          5.4          3.5       3.8           4.3         (X)         (X)            3.0          2.6
   50 to 54 years.......................       0.8         0.8          4.6          3.0       3.0           2.8         (X)         (X)            2.3          2.0
   55 to 59 years.......................       0.5         0.5          5.4          3.3       3.1           2.5         (X)         (X)            2.5          2.0
   60 to 64 years.......................       0.7         0.7          4.1          2.5       2.1           1.6         (X)         (X)            1.8          1.3
   65 to 69 years.......................       1.2         1.2          4.8          2.6       2.5           1.6         (X)         (X)            2.1          1.3
   70 to 74 years.......................       1.2         1.2          8.9          4.6       4.6           2.8         (X)         (X)            3.9          2.3
   75 years and over....................       0.8         0.8          4.9          2.8       2.8           1.5         (X)         (X)            2.5          1.3

     Less than 35 years.................       0.7         0.7          2.3          1.5       1.6           1.8          2.0         2.5           1.2          1.0
     35 to 44 years.....................       0.8         0.8          3.0          1.8       2.1           2.6          3.9         5.3           1.6          1.5
     45 to 54 years.....................       0.7         0.7          4.1          2.6       2.8           2.8          5.9         6.6           2.1          1.8
     55 to 64 years.....................       0.3         0.3          4.1          2.6       2.3           1.8          5.4         5.3           2.0          1.5
     65 years and over..................       0.7         0.7          2.3          1.2       1.2           0.7          3.9         4.1           1.0          0.7


(X) Not applicable.
\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