Questions regarding these data may be directed to William K. Mittendorf, Chief, Construction Starts Branch, Telephone 301-763-5731. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. Postage stamps not acceptable; currency submitted at sender's risk. Remittances from foreign countries must be by international money order or by draft on a U.S. bank. Annual subscription price - domestic $14.00; annual subscription price- foreign $17.50. Single copy - domestic $1.20; single copy - foreign $1.50. construction estimated an an was sea New privately owned housing authorized in September 1978 at sonally adjusted annual rate of 1,707,000 units in the 14,000 permit-issuing places. This is 9 percent above the revised rate of 1,563,000 for August 1978, but about the same as the rate of 1,695,000 for September September 1977. New single-family units were authorized in September at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,098,000 units compared with the revised August rate of 1,0 20,000. Units in apartment buildings with five units or more were authorized in September at an annual rate of 498,000 compared with the revised August estimate of 418,000. The September annual rate of permit authorized units in buildings with two to four units was 111,000. as errors The statistics in this report are estimated and from sample surveys subject to sampling variability as well errors of response and nonreporting. Estimated relative standard for preliminary data are shown in tables 1, 2, 4, and 5. A detailed discussion of the reliability of the data appears in the appendix to struction Report C20-78-7. Housing starts and building permits data do not include mobile home units. Mobile home statistics are shown in Con table 6. |