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Working Papers
Working Paper
Comparing Sewage Disposal Method in the American Housing Survey
Assesses accuracy of respondent-reported sewage disposal methods in the American Housing Survey as compared to public administrative records in Florida.
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Identifying Gentrification Using Machine Learning
The paper explores machine learning techniques to identify housing units at high risk of gentrification in Washington D.C. Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Cognitive Pretesting of 2023 American Housing Survey Modules
Testing of new and revised modules: healthy homes, first generation homeowner, heat risk, power outage and cooling problems.
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Imputing Lot Size With Property Tax Data
This paper assesses the use of property tax data to impute lot size for respondents who have matched property tax records.
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Imputing Year Built With Property Tax Data
This paper assesses the use of property tax data to impute year built for respondents who did not provide a valid response.
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The Usefulness of the GUTREHB Variable
This paper assesses the reliability and usefulness of the GUTREHB variable and uses data from the 2015-2019 AHS to explore ways to make it more useful.
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Cognitive Pretesting of 2021 American Housing Survey Modules
Testing of new and revised questions on home mortgages and loans, housing search process, wildfire risk and pets.
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Cognitive Pretesting of 2019 American Housing Survey Modules
Pretesting of new and revised questions for the 2019 American Housing Survey (AHS) including home accessibility, and post-secondary education.
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Cognitive Pretesting of Housing Insecurity Module of AHS
Testing of questions on housing insecurity, affordability, stable occupancy and decent and safe housing.
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A History of the American Housing Survey and Disclosure Avoidance
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the American Housing Survey (AHS) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9
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American Housing 2014 Survey Field Test: Final Report
Testing on alternative methods of asking about number and type of rooms in a housing unit.
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Cognitive Pretesting of 2017 American Housing Survey Modules
Results from cognitive testing of new and revised survey questions for the 2017 American Housing Survey (AHS).
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Impact of Dependent Interviewing on Consistency of Answers in the AHS
This working paper examines how dependent interviewing may explain differences in interview responses between multiple sampling waves.
Working Paper
State-Level Design-Based Estimates for National Surveys
This paper examines how different methods within the design-base framework can be used to produce sub-national estimates.
Working Paper
Integrating Survey Respondents: Leveraging Existing Household Survey
This poster describes a new innovative project that harmonizes and integrates survey data overtime and across surveys.
Working Paper
Cognitive Pretesting of Select Modules of the 2015 AHS
The Census Bureau’s Center for Survey Measurement conducted two rounds of cognitive research.
Working Paper
How Big is Your Neighborhood?
This working paper demonstrates how AHS can be used to measure the concept of neighborhoods.
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Final Report of Cognitive Testing of the 2013 American Housing
Results of 11 cognitive interviews conducted on the Doubling Up Module Questionnaire between July and December, 2012.
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Report of Cognitive Testing on the 2013 American Housing Survey
Results of 6 cognitive interviews conducted on the Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Module Questionnaire in September 2012.
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Final Report of Cognitive Testing of the 2013 American Housing
Results of 15 cognitive interviews conducted on the Neighborhood Module Questionnaire in June and July 2012.
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2011 AHS: Healthy Homes, Home Accessibility, and Mortgage Modules
Results of 40 cognitive interviews conducted in September and October, 2010.
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Drowning in Debt: Housing and Households with Underwater Mortgages
This working paper examines national and regional trends in unerwater mortgages and housing and mortgage characteristics associated with those mortgages.
Working Paper
Cognitive Testing of Spanish Language Translation in the AHS
The purpose of this project was to identify and correct translation issues in the selected questions at the lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic levels.
Working Paper
A Tale of Two Surveys: Mortgage Wealth Data in the AHS and the SIPP
This report analyzes those with at least one mortgage as reported in the 2005 AHS and wave 3 of the 2004 SIPP panel.
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A Comparison to Selected Housing and Financial Characteristics.
This report describes differences between AHS and ACS in regard to survey goals, sample design, collection techniques, and processing methods.
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Valuing Housing in Household and Family Economic Well-Being
This paper examines the incorporation of housing benefits in measures of economic well-being.
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Comparison of Housing Information from the AHS and the ACS
This HUD report documents the similarities and differences between the two surveys and compares estimates of key housing statistics.
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Report on Cognitive Testing of Housing Subsidy Questions in the AHS
Census must ensure that new words and concepts do not hinder its ability to accurately identify and describe low-income housing program participation for HUD.
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Discrepancies Between Measured Income in the AHS and the CPS
This paper presents major differences between AHS and CPS in the way income is reported.
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Guide to International Migration Statistics
This report presents an overview of information available from the U.S. Census Bureau about the U.S. foreign-born population.
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Encouraging Respondents to Use Visual Imagery to Improve Accuracy
This paper describes a research project exploring respondents' use of visual imagery in the AHS to report the rooms in their homes.
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Practical Considerations in Sample Size Selection
Despite some initial work, few objective guidelines currently exist to suggest how many cases are needed when using behavior coding as a pretest technique.
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Results From a Cognitive Exploration of the 1993 AHS
The Census Bureau undertook a qualitative research project to investigate respondents' comprehension and interpretation of a subset of questions in the AHS.
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On the Redesign of the American Housing Survey Weighting Procedure
On the Redesign of the American Housing Survey Weighting Procedure
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