DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08191
title: Annual Housing Survey, 1980 [United States]: National File
title: Archival Version

description: This data collection provides information on the
 characteristics of a national sample of housing units. Data include
 the year the structure was built, type and number of living quarters,
 presence of a garage, occupancy status, access, number of rooms and
 bedrooms, 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. Similar data are provided for housing units previously occupied
 by respondents who had recently moved. Supplemental sections provide
 data on energy-related characteristics, such as the presence of storm
 doors, storm windows, and other types of insulation, and use of
 supplemental heating equipment. Additionally, indicators of housing
 and neighborhood quality are supplied. Housing quality variables
 include privacy of bedrooms, condition of kitchen facilities, basement
 or roof leakage, cracks or holes in walls, ceilings, and floors,
 breakdowns of plumbing facilities and equipment, use of exterminator
 service, and respondent's overall opinion of structure. For quality of
 neighborhood, variables include existence of boarded-up buildings,
 noise, lack of street lighting, heavy traffic, objectionable odors,
 crime, and respondent's overall opinion of neighborhood. Extensive
 information is provided on mobile homes including type of foundation,
 width of home, quality of the structure, problems, if any with
 installation of mobile home on the present site, and amount of real
 estate and property taxes, and site rent. Information on condominiums
 and cooperatives covers number of units in the development, amount of
 mortgage payment, real estate tax, condominium fee, and utility
 costs. In addition to housing characteristics, demographic data are
 provided on the household members, such as sex, age, race, marital
 status, relationship to the household head, and income. Additional
 data are provided on the head of the household including years of
 school completed, Hispanic origin, and length of residence. For each
 employed respondent travel-to-work information such as principal mode
 of transportation, carpool occupancy, type of public transportation
used, and time and distance from home to work was also collected.
description: Cross-national, representative sample, drawn from the 1970
 Census of Population and Housing and updated by a sample of addresses
 from building permits to include new construction and
 conversions. Housing units in 461 primary sampling units (PSUs) were
included in the sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Annual Housing Survey, 1980 [United States]: National File
description: Housing units in the United States.