Survey of Housing Starts, Sales, and Completions

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Office of the Director
Washington, DC 20233-0001

A Message from the Director, U.S. Census Bureau:
We request your parcipaon with the Survey of Construction. The informaon requested is
detail level data on construction progress and characteristics of new residential housing. One or
more of your new residenal construcon projects has been selected to parcipate in our
survey. A Census Bureau field representave will be contacng or vising you soon to explain
more about the survey and collect the information.
The Survey of Construcon produces a variety of stascs on new residenal construcon and
is partially funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The survey
produces key estimates, such as starts and completions of new single- and mulfamily units
and sales of new single-family houses. Government and private enes use these stascs to
monitor and evaluate the large and dynamic housing construcon industry and to make vital
economic decisions.
YOUR RESPONSE WILL BE KEPT STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Information about the authority,
confidentiality, and burden of this data collection can be found on the back of this letter.
For assistance with completing this survey, please contact the Atlanta Regional Office at the
contact information below.
Atlanta Regional Office
101 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 3200
Atlanta, GA 30303-2700
(404) 730-3832 or 1-800-424-6974
FAX: (404) 730-3835 TDD: (404) 730-3963
EMAIL: Atlanta.Regional.Office@census.gov
Thank you in advance for your time and participation, and for helping the U.S. Census Bureau
measure America’s people and economy.
Sincerely,

Robert L. Santos
Director
Enclosures

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OMB Number
This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eightdigit OMB approval number is 0607-0110 and appears in the top right corner of the paper
survey form. Without this approval, we could not conduct this survey.
Authority and Confidenality
Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 131, 182, and 8(b), and Title 12 U.S.C., Secons
1701z-1 and 1701z-2g authorizes the Census Bureau to conduct this collection and to request
your voluntary assistance. The Census Bureau is required by Section 9 of Title 13 to keep your
information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics. The Census Bureau
is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify your business,
organization, or institution. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data
are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your
data.
Burden Esmate Statement
We estimate that it will take from 3 to 7 minutes to complete an interview for each building,
with 5 minutes being the average time. Email comments regarding this burden esmate or any
other aspect of this collection of this information, including suggesons for reducing this
burden, to: eid.rcb.customer.service@census.gov; use EID Survey Comments 0607-0110 as the
subject.