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Chapter 8 - New Residential Construction > DIGGING FOR THE DATA
DIGGING FOR THE DATA
The New Residential Construction report contains data on privately owned residential structures, both single family and multifamily. Each unit in the multifamily structures is counted separately; a building with ten apartments, for example, is counted as ten units. Excluded are public housing, and hotels, motels, group residential structures such as college dormitories and nursing homes, and mobile homes.
The release consists of a summary of the month’s figures followed by five tables. Each table corresponds to five stages in the residential construction process. The first contains data on the number of new privately owned housing units for which applications for building permits, required for construction in most U.S. regions, have been filed. The figures are compiled from responses to mail surveys sent to building-permit officials in 8,500 permit-issuing localities, out of a universe of some 19,000 permit-issuing localities.