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Description
MOBLHOME reports the annual amount of special costs incurred by mobile home owners. This measure is similar to MOBLHOM2 (available for the 2000 census samples and the 2000-2002 ACS samples), except that MOBLHOME does not include installment loan payments (see MOBLOAN), while MOBLHOM2 does.
The following costs are included in MOBLHOME: land or site rent, registration fees, license fees, and personal property taxes. (Personal property taxes do not include the real estate taxes reported in PROPTX99.) Respondents were to report the full amount of such costs, even if payments were delinquent or paid by someone outside the household; they were not to include unpaid obligations from previous years.
Amounts are expressed in contemporary dollars, and users studying change over time must adjust for inflation (See INCTOT for Consumer Price Index adjustment factors). The exception is the ACS/PRCS multi-year files, where all dollar amounts have been standardized to dollars as valued in the final year of data included in the file (e.g., 2007 dollars for the 2005-2007 3-year file). Additionally, more detail may be available than exists in the original ACS samples.
User Note: ACS respondents are surveyed throughout the year, and amounts do not reflect calendar year dollars. While the Census Bureau provides an adjustment factor (available in ADJUST), this is an imperfect solution. See the ACS income variables note for further details.
MOBLHOME is a 4-digit numeric variable that reports the annual amount of special costs incurred by mobile home owners. This measure is similar to MOBLHOM2 (available for the 2000 census samples and the 2000-2002 ACS samples), except that MOBLHOME does not include installment loan payments (see MOBLOAN), while MOBLHOM2 does. The following costs are included in MOBLHOME: land or site rent, registration fees, license fees, and personal property taxes. (Personal property taxes do not include the real estate taxes reported in PROPTX99.) Respondents were to report the full amount of such costs, even if payments were delinquent or paid by someone outside the household; they were not to include unpaid obligations from previous years. MOBLHOME specific variable codes for missing, edited, or unidentified observations, observations not applicable (N/A), observations not in universe (NIU), top and bottom value coding, etc. are provided below by Census year (and data sample if specified).
User Note: Amounts are expressed in contemporary dollars, and users studying change over time must adjust for inflation (See Description). The exception is the ACS/PRCS multi-year files, where all dollar amounts have been standardized to dollars as valued in the final year of data included in the file (e.g., 2007 dollars for the 2005-2007 3-year file). Additionally, more detail may be available than exists in the original ACS samples.
MOBLHOME Specific Variable Codes
0000 = N/A
| MOBLHOME | |
| Census | Top Code |
| 1990 | $3,400* |
| 2000 | $9,999*** |
| ACS (2000-2002) | $9,999*** |
| ACS (2003-onward) | 99.5th Percentile in State** OR $9,999*** (whichever is less) |
| PRCS | 99.5th Percentile in State** OR $9,999*** (whichever is less) |