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Domain: Social Environments

Release Date: May 31, 2016

Number of Rooms in Primary Residence

About the Measure
Domain / Social Environments
Measure / Number of Rooms in Primary Residence
Definition / This measure collects information on the number and kinds of rooms in a home.
About the Protocol
Description of Protocol / The 2009 American Housing Survey (AHS) protocol includes interviewer-administered questions regarding the number and types of rooms in a respondent’s home.
The goal of this measure is to calculate residential crowding by dividing the number of household members (taken from the Household Roster - Relationships measure in Demographics) by the number of rooms counted up using the following protocol.
To calculate household crowding, the data on the number of rooms and the household roster must be for the same housing unit.
Protocol Text / The next few questions are about the number and kinds of rooms in your/that [HOUSING TYPE].
1. How many bedrooms are there in your/that [HOUSING TYPE]?
______# of rooms
Enter 10 for 10 or more.
2. How many full bathrooms?
______# of rooms
Enter 10 for 10 or more.
3. How many half bathrooms?
______# of rooms
Enter 10 for 10 or more.
4. How many kitchens?
______# of rooms
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
5. How many SEPARATE dining rooms? (A separate dining room is one that is separated from other rooms by archways or walls extending at least 6inches.)
______# of rooms
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
6. How many living rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
If not obvious, ask
7. Is this a one-room efficiency or studio apartment?
1 [ ] Yes
2 [ ] No
8. Besides all of these rooms, are there any OTHER rooms in that/this home?
1 [ ] Yes
2 [ ] No
9. What are they?
______
Enter all that apply; separate with commas.
Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
1 [ ] Family Rooms/Great Rooms/TV Rooms
2 [ ] Recreation Rooms
3 [ ] Dens/Libraries
4 [ ] Laundry/Utility/Pantries
5 [ ] Other Finished Rooms
6 [ ] Other Unfinished Rooms
10. How many family rooms, great rooms, or TV rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
11. How many recreation rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
12. How many dens or libraries?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
13. How many laundry, utility, or pantry rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
14. How many other FINISHED rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
15. How many other UNFINISHED rooms?
______# of rooms
Enter the number of each type of room respondent mentions. Do not count the same room more than once.
Do not count garages, hallways, closets, or porches as rooms.
Enter 5 for 5 or more.
15. I have listed
…Studio
…Bedroom(s), Bathroom(s),
…Half bathroom(s), Kitchen(s),
…Separate dining room(s), Living room(s),
…Family room(s)/“Great” room(s)/TV room(s),
…Recreation room(s)/Utility room(s)/Pantries,
…Other Finished room(s), Other Unfinished room(s)
16. Are there any other rooms elsewhere?
(Have I misrecorded the number of any rooms?)
1 [ ] Yes
2 [ ] No
(For efficiency or studio apartments, if bedroom and/or kitchen is listed below, enter “1” without asking question.)
16. I want to be sure that I have correctly recorded all of the room information. My notes state that there is not a:
…Bedroom
…Bathroom
…Kitchen
In this/that home.
Is that correct?
1 [ ] Yes
2 [ ] No—PROBE: Which do you have? Which do you not have?
17. Thinking about all the rooms you mentioned earlier, as well as hallways and entryways, in the/that [HOUSING TYPE], about how many square feet is that?
(Include: Finished attics. Exclude: Unfinished attics, carports, and attached garages. Also exclude porches that are not protected from the elements/business.)
______# square feet
Enter appropriate square feet between 99 and 99998.
Enter 99998 for 99,998 square feet or more.
Participant / Adults, aged 18 years and older
Source / U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. (2013). 2013 American Housing Survey (AHS). Items booklet (pp. 61–66). Washington, DC: Author. http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/2013/AHS%202013%20Items%20Booklet.pdf
Language of Source / English, Spanish
Personnel and Training Required / If interviewers administer the questionnaire, the interviewer must be trained to conduct personal interviews with individuals from the general population and found competent to administer these particular questions (i.e., tested by an expert) at the end of the training. The interviewer should be trained to prompt respondents further if a “don’t know” response is provided.
Equipment Needs / These questions can be administered in a computerized or noncomputerized format (i.e., paper-and pencil instrument). Computer software is necessary to develop computer-assisted instruments. The interviewer will require a laptop computer or handheld computer to administer or to allow the respondent to self-administer a computer-assisted questionnaire.
Protocol Type / Interviewer-administered questionnaire
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Process and Review / The Expert Review Panel #2 (ERP 2) reviewed the measures in the Demographics, Environmental Exposures, and Social Environments domains.
Guidance from ERP 2 includes:
• Revised descriptions of the measure

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Number of Rooms in Primary Residence