Actions for B25021. Median Number of Rooms by Tenure from the American Community Survey Summary File: 5-Year Estimates, 2016-2020 database shown as count Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Demographic Indicator: Total: Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

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B25021. Median Number of Rooms by Tenure from the American Community Survey Summary File: 5-Year Estimates, 2016-2020 database shown as count Date Type: Year; Country: USA; Demographic Indicator: Total: Sage Data. Sage Publishing Ltd Sage Data [electronic resource]

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United States Census Bureau
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Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. 2025
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Presents an estimate of the median number of rooms in occupied housing units in the United States, and according to tenure, ie, whether the occupants own or rent the housing unit. Estimates are reported for specified geographic areas. A housing unit may be a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms or a single room that is occupied as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are those in which the occupants live separately from any other individuals in the building and which have direct access from outside the building or through a common hall. A housing unit is classified as occupied if it is the current place of residence of the person or group of people living in it at the time of interview, or if the occupants are only temporarily absent from the residence for two months or less. If all the people staying in the unit at the time of the interview are staying there for two months or less, the unit is considered to be temporarily occupied and classified as "vacant." For each unit, rooms include living rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, finished recreation rooms, enclosed porches suitable for year-round use, and lodger's rooms. Excluded are strip or pullman kitchens, bathrooms, open porches, balconies, halls or foyers, half-rooms, utility rooms, unfinished attics or basements, or other unfinished space used for storage. This measure divides the room distribution into two equal parts: one-half of the cases falling below the median number of rooms and one-half above the median. In computing median rooms, the whole number is used as the midpoint of the interval; thus, the category "3 rooms" is treated as an interval ranging from 2.5 to 3.5 rooms. The American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the US Census Bureau provides estimates of the characteristics of the population over a specific time period. The ACS collects data from the 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, where it is called the Puerto Rico Community Survey. It is a continuous survey, in which each month a sample of housing unit addresses receives a questionnaire, with approximately 3.5 million addresses surveyed each year. Each year the survey produces data pooled to produce 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year estimates for geographic areas in the US and Puerto Rico, ranging from neighborhoods to congressional districts to the entire nation. Data for each release of the 5-year estimates were collected over a 5-year period ending December 31 of the reference year (eg, data in the 2020 5-year estimates were collected January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2020). The statistics reported represent the characteristics of the population for the entire period vs a specific year within that period. The 5-year estimates are published for areas with populations of all sizes and are the most reliable and precise of the ACS period estimates as well as the most comprehensive, albeit the least current. (The 1-year estimates provide data on areas with populations of 65,000+ and 20,000+, respectively.) The ACS estimates provide information about the social and economic needs of communities and are used to help determine how billions in federal and state funds are distributed each year. It is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193.
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9781544332048 Sage Data CORE
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Statistical data with bibliographic citation and abstract.
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