Dependent interviewing is the use of a respondent’s past answers in a longitudinal survey to modify question phrasing or skip items when responses are expected to change predictably or infrequently. This has the goal of reducing respondent burden, reducing item non-response, and improving data quality. Since 1999, the American Housing Survey (AHS) has used dependent interviewing in every survey year until drawing a new sample in 2015. For some dependent interviewing questions, notable differences were found between 2015 estimates and trends observed from previous waves. Examination of consistency of responses across years for such questions indicated that dependent interviewing may reduce changes in response and uninformative responses in the AHS, even when controlling for other factors.