Changes in Homeownership and Households, 1993 to 1995: An Evaluation of Estimates from the Current Population Survey

John Pitkin

Journal of Housing Research, 1998, vol. 9, issue 2, 317-326

Abstract: Long-term changes in the number of households and the rate of homeownership serve as indicators of trends in the housing sector and in economic and social well-being. The Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS), the principal data source used to measure these trends, underwent major design changes in 1994. Users have questioned whether these changes affected the CPS's accuracy as a basis for measuring trends during the first half of the 1990s.This research note uses independent estimates from the American Housing Survey (AHS) to assess nonsampling errors introduced by the 1994 CPS changes. The results indicate that the CPS-based Housing Vacancy Survey (HVS) significantly underestimates the 1993 to 1995 growth in the number of households. Differences between homeownership trends estimated by the HVS and AHS are not significant.

Date: 1998
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/10835547.1998.12091935 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rjrhxx:v:9:y:1998:i:2:p:317-326

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rjrh20

DOI: 10.1080/10835547.1998.12091935

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Housing Research is currently edited by Kimberly Goodwin

More articles in Journal of Housing Research from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().