DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04589.v1
title: American Housing Survey, 2002: Metropolitan Microdata
title: Version 1

description: The metropolitan survey is conducted in even-numbered years, cycling through a set of 41 metropolitan areas, surveying each one about once every six years. This data collection provides information on the characteristics of a metropolitan sample of housing units including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, and vacant housing units. The data are presented in eight separate parts: Part 1, Work Done Record (Replacement or Addition to the House), Part 2, Worker Record, Part 3, Mortgages (Owners Only), Part 4, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Weights, Part 5, Manager and Owner Record (Renters Only), Part 6, Person Record, Part 7, Ratio Verification, and Part 8, Mover Group Record. Data include year the structure was built, type and number of living quarters, occupancy status, access, number of rooms, presence of commercial establishments on the property, and property value. Additional data focus on kitchen and plumbing facilities, types of heating fuel used, source of water, sewage disposal, heating and air-conditioning equipment, and major additions, alterations, or repairs to the property. Information provided on housing expenses includes monthly mortgage or rent payments, cost of services such as utilities, garbage collection, and property insurance, and amount of real estate taxes paid in the previous year. Also included is information on whether the household received government assistance to help pay heating or cooling costs or for other energy-related services. Similar data are provided for housing units previously occupied by respondents who had recently moved. Additionally, indicators of housing and neighborhood quality are supplied. Housing quality variables include privacy of bedrooms, condition of kitchen facilities, basement or roof leakage, breakdowns of plumbing facilities and equipment, and overall opinion of the structure. For quality of neighborhood, variables include use of exterminator services, existence of boarded-up buildings, and overall quality of the neighborhood. In addition to housing characteristics, some demographic data are provided on household members, such as age, sex, race, marital status, income, and relationship to householder. Additional data provided on the householder include years of school completed, Spanish origin, length of residence, and length of occupancy.
description: Please review the "Sample Status, Weights, Interview Status" section in the ICPSR codebook for this American Housing Survey, as well as Appendix B in CURRENT HOUSING REPORTS, 2002, for each metropolitan area sampled, which is included with this collection.
description: For more information about sampling, please see Appendix B in CURRENT HOUSING REPORTS, 2002, for each metropolitan area sampled, which is included with this collection.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Work Done Record (Replacement or Addition to the House) DS2: Worker Record DS3: Mortgages (Owners Only) DS4: Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Weights DS5: Manager and Owner Record (Renters Only) DS6: Person Record DS7: Ratio Verification DS8: Mover Group Record
description: Housing units among eight 1970-based metropolitan areas and five 1990-based metropolitan areas, most of which are consistent with the 1993 Office of Management and Budget definition of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA), consolidated metropolitan statistical area (CMSA), or primary metropolitan statistical area (PMSA), in the United States.
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI); telephone interviewBeginning in 1997, the methods of collecting and processing American Housing Survey (AHS) data were redesigned. All interviews are conducted using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) software, allowing new responses to some questions. Rather than existing as a single file, this collection consists of eight parts, each containing data pertaining to a specific subject matter. In addition, data for building and neighborhood questions ceased to be collected through interviewer observation. Rather, these questions have been reworded for the respondents. Due to these changes, users are asked to use caution when comparing data prior to 1997 with data from 1997 forward. For further information about the redesign, please refer to DOCUMENTATION OF CHANGES IN THE 1997 AMERICAN HOUSING SURVEY included with AMERICAN HOUSING SURVEY, 1997: NATIONAL MICRODATA (ICPSR 2912).Beginning in 2001, three datasets: Part 2, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Part 9, Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Part 10, Weights, have been combined into one dataset: Part 4, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Weights.The interview dates in the data file are not consistent with the dates listed under Interview Schedules in Appendix B of CURRENT HOUSING REPORTS, 2002, which is included with this collection.Additional information about the American Housing Survey can be found at the HUD USER Web site and the U.S. Census Bureau Web site.