tables with row headers in column A and column headers in rows 8 through 15. Page 6 of 15 SURVEY OF MARKET ABSORPTION Estimates of Absorption Rates by Quarter of Completion
(Privately-financed, nonsubsidized, unfurnished apartments) CBSA: Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Percent absorbed in -3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months
Quarter of completion 2006 Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec 2007 Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec 2008 Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec 2009 Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec 2010 Jan-Mar Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec
Percent 48 62 36 61 63 67 61 \r48 51
90% C.I.(+/-)2/ 3.1 7.9 4.8 6.9 1.1 14.0 3.3 6.1 1.4
Percent 78 79 46 82 83 78 74 68
90% C.I.(+/-)2/ 3.4 7.5 6.7 11.3 8.0 11.6 3.0 6.4
Percent 89 90 71 92 96 84 84
90% C.I.(+/-)2/ 2.5 7.9 12.4 3.3 1.5 9.6 2.3
Percent 95 97 79 96 99 90
2/A 90-percent confidence interval is a measure of an estimate's variability. The larger the confidence interval in relation to the r = Revised * = Data suppressed to avoid disclosure + = Estimated to be less than one half of one percent OR cannot be estimated - = No activity # = Withheld because the estimate did not meet publication standards because of the associated standard error
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division Washington, D.C. 20233
12 months
90% C.I.(+/-)2/ 1.4 3.8 15.3 1.3 + 0.9
e confidence interval in relation to the size of the estimate, the less reliable the estimate.
ociated standard error