Improving Housing Subsidy Surveys: Data Collection Techniques for Identifying the Housing Subsidy Status of Survey Respondents

摘要

This report provides the findings of a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-sponsored research project entitled Improving Housing Subsidy Surveys: Data Collection Techniques for Identifying the Housing Subsidy Status of Survey Respondents to the American Housing Survey (AHS). ORC Macro conducted the actual research under contract to HUD. The primary objective of the study was to develop more accurate methods to correctly identify the housing subsidy status of respondents for use in large-scale surveys such as the AHS. In its pursuit of more accurate methods of correctly identifying the recipients of housing subsidies through survey research, ORC Macro developed a study design that sought to conduct a detailed examination of respondents' understandings and misunderstandings regarding their housing subsidy status. This report begins with a discussion of the collection of housing subsidy information by the AHS, followed by a presentation of the research objectives of the current study. A discussion of the research design appears next, including an in-depth depiction of the study's research questions, sampling strategy, and data collection methodology. The authors envisage this document as a point of departure for future research. Hence, although some readers may find the treatment of the research methodology and associated findings to be unnecessarily exhaustive, please keep in mind that the level of detail is meant to facilitate replication. This report ends with recommendations for improvements in the AHS.