The Census Bureau will conduct the survey for the City of New York in order to determine the vacancy rate of rental housing stock, which the city uses to enact specific policies. New York will also use the data to help measure the quality of its housing, and learn specific demographic characteristics about the city's residents.
The estimated respondent burden is slightly higher than the estimate from the 2011 NYCHVS due to anticipated additional sample for new construction units built between October 1, 2010 Â September 30, 2013. For 2011, we sampled primarily from the 2010 Decennial Census Address files and supplemented that with newly constructed units built between April 1, 2010 Â September 30, 2010.
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