Codebook for the Housing Allowance Office (HAO) Recertification Characteristics File, Site II, Year 5. Housing Assist- ance Supply Experiment

摘要

One of a series archiving housing allowance office (HAO) materials used in the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment, this codebook describes the data in the recertification characteristics file covering the program's first 5 years of operation in St. Joseph County, Indiana. This is the final codebook for this file from Site II and supersedes all previous versions. The data pertain to the 89,063 recertification transactions that took place from December 1974 through January 1980. Once enrolled in the allowance program, a household may remain enrolled as long as it continues to meet program eligibility requirements. Periodic recertification is required to verify continued eligibility. Four types of recertification occur: semiannual, annual, special, and reinstatement. For each variable in the file, the codebook identifies the corresponding question on the administrative form, specifies all permissible responses, and presents tabulations of response frequencies (marginals). A table denotes information contained in the recertification characteristics file. Footnotes and an index of variables are included. Appendices present recertification and housing unit certification forms, tables of standard housing expenses for 1975-79, and maps of St. Joseph County neighborhoods and census tracts. (Author abstract modified).