American Housing Survey, 2004: Metropolitan Area Microdata

<p>The metropolitan survey is conducted in even-numbered years, cycling through a set of 41 metropolitan areas, surveying each one about once every six years. This data collection provides information on the characteristics of a metropolitan sample of housing units, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, and vacant housing units. The data are presented in eight separate parts: Part 1, Work Done Record (Replacement or Addition to the House), Part 2, Worker Record, Part 3, Mortgages (Owners Only), Part 4, Housing Unit Record (Main Record), Recodes (One Record per Housing Unit), and Weights, Part 5, Manager and Owner Record (Renters Only), Part 6, Person Record, Part 7, Ratio Verification, and Part 8, Mover Group Record. Data include year the structure was built, type and number of living quarters, occupancy status, access, number of rooms, presence of commercial establishments on the property, and property value. Additional data focus on kitchen and plumbing facilities, types of heating fuel used, source of water, sewage disposal, heating and air-conditioning equipment, and major additions, alterations, or repairs to the property. Information provided on housing expenses includes monthly mortgage or rent payments, cost of services such as utilities, garbage collection, and property insurance, and amount of real estate taxes paid in the previous year. Also included is information on whether the household received government assistance to help pay heating or cooling costs or for other energy-related services. Similar data are provided for housing units previously occupied by respondents who had recently moved. Additionally, indicators of housing and neighborhood quality are supplied. Housing quality variables include privacy of bedrooms, condition of kitchen facilities, basement or roof leakage, breakdowns of plumbing facilities and equipment, and overall opinion of the structure. For quality of neighborhood, variables include use of exterminator services, existence of boarded-up buildings, and overall quality of the neighborhood. In addition to housing characteristics, some demographic data are provided on household members, such as age, sex, race, marital status, income, and relationship to householder. Additional data provided on the householder include years of school completed, Spanish origin, length of residence, and length of occupancy. (Source: ICPSR, retrieved 06/28/2011)</p>

本都会区调查于偶数年份开展，循环覆盖41个都会区，每约6年对各都会区完成一轮调研。本次数据采集涵盖公寓、单户住宅、移动住房及空置住房等各类住房单元的都会区样本特征信息。数据分为8个独立模块：模块1为工程施工记录（房屋更换或加装项目）、模块2为劳动者记录、模块3为抵押贷款记录（仅适用于房主）、模块4为住房单元主记录、重编码数据（每个住房单元对应一条记录）与权重数据、模块5为管理者与房主记录（仅适用于租客）、模块6为个人记录、模块7为比率核验记录、模块8为迁移群体记录。数据内容包含建筑竣工年份、居住单元类型与数量、居住状态、通行条件、房间数量、地块内商业设施存在情况以及房产价值。额外收录的数据涵盖厨房与卫生设施、使用的取暖燃料类型、供水来源、污水处理方式、供暖与空调设备，以及房产的主要加装、改造或维修情况。住房开支相关信息包括月度抵押贷款或租金支出、水电、垃圾清运、房产保险等服务费用，以及上一年度缴纳的房地产税税额。此外还收录了住户是否获得政府补贴以支付取暖、制冷费用或其他能源相关服务的相关信息。针对近期搬迁的受访对象曾居住过的住房单元，同样提供了同类调研数据。数据集还提供了住房与社区质量的评估指标，其中住房质量变量包括卧室私密性、厨房设施状况、地下室或屋顶渗漏情况、卫生设施与设备故障情况，以及对建筑整体的评价；社区质量变量包括除虫服务使用情况、是否存在被木板封堵的废弃建筑，以及社区整体质量评价。除住房特征外，数据集还收录了住户成员的人口统计学特征数据，如年龄、性别、种族、婚姻状况、收入水平以及与户主的亲属关系。关于户主的额外数据包括受教育年限、西班牙裔血统、居住总时长以及当前住房入住时长。数据来源：校际政治与社会研究联盟（Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research，ICPSR），数据获取时间：2011年6月28日。