American Housing Survey (AHS) Technical Documentation
The American Housing Survey provides various documentation to assist users with our data releases. Click on the links below to learn more about these resources.
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Definitions, Accuracy, Historical Changes, and QuestionnairesInformation for the current survey year and prior survey years is available here.
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Help Guides and Other DocumentationThese documents explain AHS geography, dependent interviewing, the Internal Use File, disclosure, variance estimation, and more.
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PUF CodebooksThe codebooks provide information about the public use files and includes descriptive information on all of the AHS variables.
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User NotesThese documents describe changes to AHS Table Creator, data corrections, or situations that require using caution when analyzing data.
Page Last Revised - May 20, 2026