Help Guides and Other Documentation
The American Housing Survey has been around since 1973. It is a longitudinal survey, with samples redrawn in 1985 and 2015. For this reason, documentation is broken up into different "generations": 2015 to 2023, 1985-2013, and pre-1985.
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2015-2023These documents explain AHS geography, dependent interviewing, the Internal Use File, disclosure, variance estimation, and more for years 2015 to 2023.
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1985-2013These documents explain AHS geography, dependent interviewing, the Internal Use File, disclosure, variance estimation, and more for years 1985 to 2013.
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Pre-1985These documents explain AHS geography, dependent interviewing, the Internal Use File, disclosure, variance estimation, and more for years prior to 1985.
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