App-1 Appendix A Area Classifications, Definitions and Explanations of Subject Characteristics, and Fascimile ~f the Annual Housing Survey Questionnaire: 1978 AREA CLASSIFICATIONS •••••. Api>-2 UOits Occupied by Recent Movers. App-7 Extermination 'service App-13 Counties .............. App-2 Recent movers. App-7 Neighborhood conditions a~d Standard Metropolitan Statistical Present and previous units of neighborhood services. App-13 Areas . .......... · recent movers ...... App-7 Financial Characteristics .. App-14 Silme or different head .. App-7 DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANA­ Value ........ App-14 Main reason for move into TIONS OF SUBJECT CHARAC­ Valu&income ratio . ,App-14 TERISTICS .•••••. · •...• present unit .... , .. App-7 ~pp-2 Mortgage status . App-14 General ............. Home ownership ... App-7 App-2 Mortgage' insurance ... App-14 Comparability with 1975 Utilizatio~ Characteristics.· App-8 Monthly mortgage payment , App-15 SMSA Annual Housing Persons ....... App-8 Roal estate taxes last year . App-15 Survey data.•• .' ••. App-2 Rooms ......... App-8 Property insurance ..... Comparability with 1970· Persons per room . '. App-8 App-15 Selected monthly housing Census o't Housing data .. App-2 Bedrooms . App-8-· costs............. App-15 Comparability with 1970 Sfructural Characteristics ... App-8 Census of Populaiion data App-3 Selected monthly housing Complete kitchen facilities .. App-8 Comparability with Current costs as percentage of income App-15 Condition of kitchen facilities. Construction Reports from App-8 Acquisition of property .... App-15 the Survey of Construction. App-3 Basement...... App-8 Alterations and repairs during Comparability with other Year structure built .. App-9 the last 12 months...... App-15 Bureau of the Census da'ta •• App-3 Units i.n structure ... , App-9 Plans for improvements during Comparability with housing Elevator in structure , . App-9 the next 12 months . App·16 vacancy surveys .... App-3 Storie~ between main and Sales price asked . App-16 apartment entrances. , .. App-9 Living Quarters ... App-3 Garage or carport on property. App-16 Storm windows, storm doors, Housing units .. App-3 Contract rent , . App-16 and attic or roof insulation. App-9 Group quarters App-4 Gross rent ........... App-16 Roof ............ App-9 Rules for mobile homes, Gross rent in nonsubsidized lnterio'r walls and ceilings .. App.g hotels, rooming houses, etc .. App-4 housing ............ App-16 Interior floors ......... Institutions ........ App-4 App-9. Gross rent as percentage of Setected structural deficiencies income ........... App-16 Vear-round housing units .. App-4 and wish to move . .. App-9 Gross rent in nonsubsidized Changes in the Housing Inven- Overall opinion of structure .. App-10 housing as percentage of tory ................ App-4 Common stairways . App-10 income ............ App-17 Units added by new construc- Light ~ixtures in public halls .. App-10 Inclusion in rent (parking tion ............ , .. App-4 facilities, garbage collection, Electric wiring .. , ...... App-10 Units lost from the·inventory . App-4 and furniture) ....... App-17 Electric wall outlets...... App-10 Units lost through demolition Rent asked ........... App-17 Electric fuses and circuit or disaster . App-4 Public, private, or subsidized breakers... : ... App-10 Units lost through other housing ............ App-17 Parking facilities ... means ....... App-4 App-10 Household Characteristics . App-17 Unspecified units ..... App-5 Plumbing Characteristics. App-10 Household ....... App-17 Plumbing facilities ... App-10 Occupancy and Vacancy Charac- Complete bathrooms . Head of household . App-17 tertstics .............. App-5 App-10 Source of water or water Household composition App-17 Occupied housing units .... App-5 SUPPiy. · · . · • · : • App-10, Family or primary individual App-18 Population in housing units .. App-5 S8W'age disposal ..... App-11 Subfamily ........... App-18 Race ........... · · · · App-5 flush toilet ...... App-11 Age of head .......... App-18 Spanish origin . .. App-5 Equipment and Fuels ..... App-11 Persons 65 years old and over . App-18 Tenure ........... App-5 Telephone available .. App-11 Own children ..... App-18 Previous occupancy ...... App-8 Heating equipment .. App-11 Other relative of head .... App-18 Cooperatives and condo- Insufficient heat .... Nonrelative .......... App-18 miniums .......... App-6 App-11. Air conditioning.... V ears of school completed by Duration of occupancy .. App-6 App-12 Automobiles and trucks avail· head .............. App-18 Year head moved into unit .. App-8 able ............ App-12 Means of. transportation and Owner or manager on property App-8 Fuels used for house heating distance and travel time to Vacant housing units .. App-6 and cooking ..... App-12 work ....... ·. App-18 Vacancy status ..... Income ........... App-6 Owned second home .. App-12 App-18 Duration of v_acancy .. App-7 Services and Neighborhood FACSIMILE OF THE ANNUAL Homeowner vacancy rate App-7 Conditions ........ App-12 HOUSING SURVEY Rental vacancy rate ..... App-7 Garbage collection service . App-12 QUESTIONNAIRE' 1978 .• App-2 APPENDIX A Continued AREA CLASS! FICATIONS expla"atory _'information has been added to this portion of the Counties-The primary division·s of most of the States are. text to assist the user in understanding the statistics. termed counties, in Louisiana, the corresponding areas are Comparability with 1975 SMSA Annual Housing Survey data­ termed parishes. Alaska has no counties; in this State, areas Most of the concepts and definitions used in the 1975 and 1978 designated as census divisions have been defi~ed for general reports are essentially the same. However, there are some statistical purposes by the State in cooperation with the Census differences in the measurem~nt of losses. In the 1975 report, Bureau and are treated as county equivalents. Four States loss~s are measured from 1970, while in the 1978 report, losses {Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia) contain one or more are measured from 1975. Also, in 1975, housing' units in cities that are independent of any county; for statistical nonpermit-issuing areas (mainly rural areas) were counted as purposes these independent ·cities·are treated as county equiva­ losses only when the whole structure in which the unit was lents. located was lost from the inventory. In the 1978 report, the data refer .to losses of individual housing units regardless of Standard Metropolitan Statistic:al Areas-The definitions of whether the entire structure was lost from the inventory. The standard metropolitan statistice1I areas (SMSA's) used in the source of the data for lost units in the 1975 report is 1:he 1970 Annual Housing Survey correspc•nd to the 243 SMSA's used in ··Census of Housing; the source of the data for lost units in the the 1970 census. These include the 228 SMSA's as defined and 1978 'report is the 1975 Annual Housing Survey. named in the Bureau of the Budget publication, Standard 'Addi~ional differences, if any, are discussed under the Metropolitan Statistical Areas: .1967, U.S. Government Printing particular subject. Because of the relatively small. sample size, Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. After 1967, 15 SMSA's were particular care should be taken in making comparisons between added, of which 2 were defined in January 1968, and an the two surveys, especially where there· are small differe·nces additional 13 were defined in February 1971 as a result of the between the figures (see appendix B). 1970 census. Changes in SMSA 'definition criteria boundaries and titles made after ·February 1971 are not refl~cted in thi~ series of reports. SMSA's are defined by the Offfce of Comparability with 1970 Census of Housing data-The concepts Management. and Budget (formerly Bureau of the Budget). and definitions are essentially the same for items that appear in Except in the New England States, a standard ~etropolitan both the 1970 census and the 1978 survey. statistical area is a county or group of contiguous counties There is a 'major d.ifference, however, in the time period of which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, the. '.'recent mover;, classification. In i:he Annual Housing or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. Survey, "recent movers" are households that move<;:t_ into their In addition to-~he county or counties containing such a citY or unit during the 12 months prior to the interview, a time period cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according of 1 year or less. In the 1970 Census of Housing reports, different tiiTie periods were used. In ·volume 11, Metropolitan to certain crit~ria, they are socic1lly and economically integrated with the central city, In the New England States, SMSA's Housing . Characteristics, the shortest time period for "year consist of towns and cities instead of counties. Each SMSA must moved i~1 to unit," is "1969 to March 1970" (1% years); in include at least one central city, and the complete title of an Volume I~, Components of Inventory Change, the period is SMSA identifies the central city or cities. For a detailed 1969 to December 1970 (approximately 2 years); and in description of the criteria used in defining SMSA's, see the Volume VI I, No. 5, Mover Households, the time period is April Bureau of the Budget public:ation cited in the preceding 1965 to March 1970 (approximately 5 years). Volume IV is the paragraph. only 1970 census repor't which shows cross-tabulations of data In this report, 'figures for "in