14: U.S. CENSUS OF HOUSING: 1960 STATES AND SMALL AREAS United States Summary U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OF THE Burgess, Supersedes Preliminary Report Series HC(P1) and Advance Report Series HC(A1). The data in this report will be reissued as a chapter in the buckram-bound edition of Volume I. SUGGESTED CITATION U.S. Bureau of the Census. U.S. Census of Housing: 1960. United States Summary. Final Report HC(1)-1. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1963. For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D.C. or any of the Field Offices of the Department of Commerce - Price $2.00. or more. PREFACE This report presents detailed data on the characteristics of housing units for the United States, regions, and divisions, with separate statistics for units inside and outside standard metropolitan statistical areas. The report also summarizes statistics published in the individual State reports for States and the District of Columbia, and for standard metropolitan statistical areas and places of 100,000 inhabitants Basic statistics are presented on all subjects for which information was collected in the Census of Housing taken as of April 1, 1960. This is one of 55 reports which comprise Series HC(1). A separate report is published for the United States and for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. These reports are assembled as chapters and bound under the title 1960 Census of Housing, Volume I, States and Small Areas. Authorization for the 1960 Census of Housing was provided in the Act of Congress of August 31, 1954 (amended August 1957), which codified Title 13, United States Code. The law provides for a decennial census of housing, including utilities and equipment, to be taken in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The census program was designed in consultation with advisory committees and individuals to achieve a census having optimum value to users of housing statistics. The Housing Advisory Committee was organized by the Director of the Bureau of the Census and was made up of persons in private industry, universities, and local governments. It advised on various aspects of the housing census programs except the technical phases of the Residential Finance program for which the Technical Advisory Committee on Residential Finance was organized. A Federal Agency Population and Housing Census Council, organized by the Bureau of the Budget and made up of persons in Federal agencies, also advised on the basic programs. A joint staff committee, set up by the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency and the Director of the Bureau of the Census, concentrated on aspects of particular interest to the housing agencies. In addition to the committees, working groups of specialists in housing subjects assisted the Census Bureau staff in the evaluation and improvement of housing concepts. A number of other committees, groups, and individuals also made contributions to the planning of the housing census. June 1963. III |