For the State chapters of Volume I, the portion consisting of the detailed tables has been prepared by assembling the materials originally issued in the separate HC(1) final State reports; for the United States Summary chapter, data tabulated for the State reports were used to compile the summary statistics. This plan was adopted to conserve public funds. The corrections in the distributions below would ordinarily have been made in the separate chapters if the detailed tables had been reprinted.

The corrections apply to the data on gross rent for housing units with nonwhite household heads, white heads of Spanish surname, and Puerto Rican heads. In both the State and the United States Summary chapters of Volume I, the gross rent distributions shown for these units erroneously include data for farm housing units; analysis reveals that for virtually all areas the great majority of these farm units were tabulated in the "no cash rent" category. Furthermore, each monthly gross rent of $200 or more was erroneously edited as "not reported" and was assigned the rent of the preceding unit; it has been determined that the number of units involved in this error is relatively small.

Corrected distributions for some of the areas published in Volume I are available from the tabulations for Volume II of the 1960 Housing reports. Only those areas for which Volume II data are available are listed below. In addition to some individual SMSA's and places, corrected gross rent data from the Volume II tabulations are not available for States (divisions, regions, and the United States) by urban and rural residence and by location in and out of central cities.

Distributions are presented in section 1 for units with nonwhite household heads, in section 2 for units with white household heads of Spanish surname, and in section 3 for units with Puerto Rican heads. As is evident, the Volume II distributions were tabulated on the basis of fewer intervals than Volume I, affecting the lower and upper ends of the distribution. Medians are not shown because those computed from the corrected data show no change in most cases and very little in others, compared with the median gross rents presented in the Volume I tables.

It should be noted that the gross rent data in the census tract reports (Series PHC(1) reports) are not subject to the gross rent errors identified in Volume I of the 1960 Housing reports.

Total

Inside SMSA's ... Outside SMSA's.

329,077 45,216

343,853 28,849

182,346

Inside SMSA's

52,723 7,873 36,758

2,835

5,738

4,755

4,089

4,358

4,078

3,808

7,379 7,088

2,667 2,606

1,751 6,895 1,697

3,763

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3,132