Current Construction Reports: New Residential Construction In Selected Metropolitan Areas

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Page B-1 - ... is used or intended to be used by the occupants of another unit or by the general public or (2) complete kitchen facilities for the exclusive use of the occupants. The occupants may be a single family, one person living alone, two or more families living together, or any other group of related or unrelated persons who share living arrangements...
Page 25 - 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 25 - 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 25 - Since the estimates in this report are based on a sample, they may differ somewhat from the figures that would have been obtained from a complete census, using the same schedules, instructions, and enumerators.
Page 26 - Nonsampling errors can be attributed to many sources, eg, inability to obtain information about all cases in the sample, definitional difficulties, differences in the interpretation of questions, inability or unwillingness...
Page B-1 - A housing unit is defined 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 B-6 - CMSA Bergen-Passaic NJ PMSA Bridgeport CT PMSA Danbury CT PMSA Dutchess County NY PMSA . Jersey City NJ PMSA Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon NJ PMSA Monmouth-Ocean NJ PMSA Nassau-Suffolk NY PMSA . . . New Haven-Meriden CT PMSA New York NY PMSA Newark NJ PMSA Newburgh NY-PA PMSA...
Page 26 - ... (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...
Page 25 - 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 B-8 - Gloucester County James City County York County Chesapeake City Hampton City Newport News City Norfolk City Poquoson City Portsmouth City Suffolk City Virginia Beach City Williamsburg City Northeast Pennsylvania (See Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.

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