Current Construction Reports: Characteristics of New Housing (1996)DIANE Publishing |
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1,200 square feet 1,599 square feet 1,999 square feet 1/2 bathrooms add to totals Aluminum siding Apartments basement Slab2 Crawl bathrooms or less bedrooms or less Brick buildings Carport No garage cars 3 cars Category of House Characteristics completed computed from unrounded Construction contract price Deck error feet 3,000 square fireplace 1 fireplace Floor Area Foundation Full or partial garage or carport Heat pump2 Hot water House and Location houses sold houses thousands Housing Service Cash included Inside MSA’s insured VA guaranteed Median meet publication standards Midwest mobile home communities Northeast Number of houses Oil Other types Other2 Patio Percent distribution 1996 Percents computed price per square region reported rounding Rural Housing Service Slab2 Crawl space South square feet 1,200 square foot standard error story 2 stories Stucco survey Table Type of financing units unrounded figures Vinyl siding Warm air furnace water or steam West Withheld because estimate Wood
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Page 73 - Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas; South — Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas; West — Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska and Hawaii.
Page 72 - A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters...
Page 66 - Approximately 90 percent of the intervals from 1.6 standard errors below the estimate to 1.6 standard errors above the estimate would include the average result of all possible samples.
Page 65 - The standard error of a sample estimate is a measure of the variation among the estimates from all the possible samples and thus is a measure of the precision with which an estimate from a particular sample approximates the average result of all possible samples. The...
Page 72 - Bureau defines a housing unit as a single room or group of rooms intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by a family, by a group of unrelated persons living together, or by a person living alone.
Page 73 - That portion of a building between the floor and the ceiling or roof, or the next floor above in the case of a multistory house. A basement is not counted as a story even if it is finished as a den or recreation room.
Page 65 - The particular sample selected for this survey is one of a large number of all possible samples of the same size that could have been selected, by chance, using the same sample design.
Page 72 - MSA's are defined by the Office of Management and Budget for use in the presentation of statistics by agencies of the Federal Government. An MSA is a geographic area consisting of a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities which have a high degree of economic and social integration with that nucleus.
Page 72 - A mobile home is a moveable dwelling, 8 feet or more wide and 40 feet or more long, designed to be towed on its own chassis, with transportation gear integral to the unit when it leaves the factory, and without need of permanent foundation.
Page 66 - ... (2) response errors, (3) definitional difficulties, (4) differences in the interpretation of questions, (5) mistakes in recording or coding the data obtained, and (6) other errors of collection, response, coverage and estimation for missing data. These nonsampling errors also occur in complete censuses. Although no direct measurement of the biases due to nonsampling errors...