2008 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey

RENTER-OCCUPIED Housing Units, Tables by Variable Type

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Household Characteristics
Area Characteristics
Building Characteristics
Apartment Characteristics

Household Characteristics

• Age and Sex of Householder [.xls] [.pdf]
• Age of Householder [.xls] [.pdf]
• Cell Phone Usage [.xls] [.pdf]
• Contract Rent as Percentage of Household Income [.xls] [.pdf]
• Gross Rent as Percentage of Household Income [.xls] [.pdf]
• Health of Respondent [.xls] [.pdf]
• Households Below Specified Poverty Income Level [.xls] [.pdf]
• Household Composition [.xls] [.pdf]
• Household Income [.xls] [.pdf]
• Household Members under Age 6 [.xls] [.pdf]
• Household Members under Age 18 [.xls] [.pdf]
• Household Receiving Part of Rent from Government [.xls] [.pdf]
• Householder Move into the United States as an Immigrant? [.xls] [.pdf]
• Households Receiving Public Assistance [.xls] [.pdf]
• Income of Primary Individuals [.xls] [.pdf]
• Land-Line Telephone in Apartment (House) [.xls] [.pdf]
• Length of Lease [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Out of Pocket Contract Rent [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Contract Rent per Room [.xls] [.pdf]
• Non-eviction Conversion to Coop/Condo [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Persons [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Stories in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Persons Per Room [.xls] [.pdf]
• Public Assistance/Welfare Payments [.xls] [.pdf]
• Presence of Nonrelatives [.xls] [.pdf]
• Previous Residence of Householder [.xls] [.pdf]
• Race and Ethnicity of Householder [.xls] [.pdf]
• Reason Householder Moved from Previous Residence [.xls] [.pdf]
• Year Householder Moved into Unit [.xls] [.pdf]
• Year Householder Moved into U.S. [.xls] [.pdf]
• Year Householder Moved into N.Y.C. [.xls] [.pdf]

• Borough [.xls] [.pdf]
• Buildings with Broken/Boarded Windows on Street (Observation) [.xls] [.pdf]
• Neighborhood Residential Structure Condition Rating (Respondent) [.xls] [.pdf]

• Access from Sidewalk to Unit Without Using Stairs [.xls] [.pdf]
• Access from Sidewalk to Elevator Without Using Stairs [.xls] [.pdf]
• Condition of Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Condition of External Walls of Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Condition of Floors of Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Condition of Stairways of Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Condition of Windows of Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Elevator in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Presence of Owner in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• NYC Structure Classification [.xls] [.pdf]
• Co-op/Condo Status of Building Development [.xls] [.pdf]
• Non-eviction Conversion to Co-op or Condo [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Building Condition Problems [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Units in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Stories in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Rodent Infestation [.xls] [.pdf]
• Type of Heating Fuel [.xls] [.pdf]
• Wheelchair Accessibility - Building Entrance [.xls] [.pdf]
• Wheelchair Accessibility - Elevator [.xls] [.pdf]
• Year Building Built [.xls] [.pdf]

• Additional Heating Required [.xls] [.pdf]
• Breakdown in Heating System [.xls] [.pdf]
• Broken Plaster or Peeling Paint [.xls] [.pdf]
• Contract Rent [.xls] [.pdf]
• Cracks or Holes in Walls, Ceiling or Floor [.xls] [.pdf]
• Floor Unit is Located On [.xls] [.pdf]
• Functioning of Kitchen Facilities [.xls] [.pdf]
• Gross Rent [.xls] [.pdf]
• Gross Rent Per Room [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Cost of Electricity [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Cost of Other Fuels [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Cost of Utility Gas [.xls] [.pdf]
• Monthly Cost of Water and Sewer [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Bedrooms [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Cockroaches in Building [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of Rooms [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of 1987 Maintenance Deficiencies [.xls] [.pdf]
• Number of 2008 Maintenance Deficiencies [.xls] [.pdf]
• Presence of Kitchen Facilities [.xls] [.pdf]
• Presence of Plumbing Facilities [.xls] [.pdf]
• Toilet Breakdown [.xls] [.pdf]
• Water Leak in Unit [.xls] [.pdf]
• Wheelchair Accessibility - Residential Unit Entrance [.xls] [.pdf]

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

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