Table B-5.  Confidence Intervals for Standard Errors of Homeownership Rates for the United States by Age of Householder

                     and by Family Status:  2006



                                                              90-Percent Confidence Interval (+/-)\1 of Estimated Percentage for:



                                                                                                                            Two-or-more-               Single-person

                                                     Married-          Other families        One-person households          person-households            households

                                           United      couple

                                           States    families         Male       Female      Male        Female         Male      Female          Male       Female



Total                                          0.5         0.5         (X)          (X)       (X)           (X)          (X)         (X)            1.1          0.9



  Other family households...............       1.2        (X)           2.3          1.4      (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)           2.7         3.3          (X)          (X)

   Less than 25 years...................       1.1         2.7          3.5          2.5       2.6           2.4         (X)         (X)            1.8          1.6

   25 to 29 years.......................       1.1         1.7          4.1          2.4       2.6           3.1         (X)         (X)            1.9          1.7

   30 to 34 years.......................       1.1         1.3          4.6          2.5       3.0           3.8         (X)         (X)            2.2          2.0

   35 to 39 years.......................       1.3         1.0          4.5          2.5       3.0           4.0         (X)         (X)            2.3          2.0

   40 to 44 years.......................       1.2         1.2          5.5          3.3       3.9           4.9         (X)         (X)            3.0          2.6

   45 to 49 years.......................       0.8         1.1          5.3          3.4       3.7           4.3         (X)         (X)            2.9          2.6

   50 to 54 years.......................       0.8         0.8          4.4          2.9       2.8           2.7         (X)         (X)            2.3          1.9

   55 to 59 years.......................       0.5         0.8          5.0          3.3       2.9           2.5         (X)         (X)            2.4          1.9

   60 to 64 years.......................       0.6         0.5          4.1          2.5       2.1           1.6         (X)         (X)            1.8          1.3

   65 to 69 years.......................       1.1         0.6          5.0          2.7       2.3           1.6         (X)         (X)            2.0          1.3

   70 to 74 years.......................       1.2         1.2          8.9          4.6       4.4           2.8         (X)         (X)            3.9          2.4

   75 years and over....................       0.9         1.1          5.2          2.7       2.7           1.5         (X)         (X)            2.4          1.4



     Less than 35 years.................       0.6         1.0          2.3          1.4       1.6           1.8          2.0         2.4           1.1          1.0

     35 to 44 years.....................       0.9         0.7          3.0          1.8       2.1           2.7          4.0         5.2           1.6          1.4

     45 to 54 years.....................       0.6         0.8          4.0          2.6       2.7           2.8          6.0         6.4           2.1          1.8

     55 to 64 years.....................       0.4         0.6          3.9          2.5       2.2           1.8          5.7         5.5           1.8          1.4

     65 years and over..................       0.6         0.4          2.3          1.2       1.2           0.7          3.6         3.6           1.0          0.6





(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.