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Includes multifamily dwelling units with stores. Revised.

• Preliminary.

1 Includes value of Federal construction contracts awarded and estimates for building to be started in urban places which do not issue permits. Urban, as defined by the Bureau of the Census, covers all incorporated places of 2,500 population or more in 1940 and, by special rule, a small number of incorporated civil divisions.

Estimates of non-Federal (private and State and local government) building in all urban areas are based upon building permit reports received from places containing about 85 percent of the urban population of the country; estimates of federally financed projects are compiled from notifications of construction contracts awarded, which are obtained from other Federal agencies.

3 Includes factories, navy yards, army ordnance plants, bakeries, ice plants, industrial warehouses, and other buildings at the site of these and similar production sites.

Includes amusement and recreation buildings, stores and other mercantile buildings, public garages, gasoline and service stations, etc.

Includes churches, hospitals, and other institutional buildings, schools, libraries, etc.

Includes Federal, State, county, and municipal buildings, such as post offices, city halls, fire and police stations, army barracks, and naval stations, etc.

7 Includes railroad, bus, and airport buildings, roundhouses, radio stations, gas and electric plants, public comfort stations, etc.

Includes private garages, sheds, stables and barns, and other buildings not elsewhere classified.

• Preliminary.

1 Covers all privately financed new family dwelling units. Excludes trailers, dormitories, barracks, converted units, and all federally financed residential building.

Industrial areas cover entire counties or groups of counties surrounding the central city or cities.

3 Based on contractors' estimates. Represents the cost of labor and materials, and all subcontracted work. Excludes land and development costs. Includes permanent units financed by the New York City Housing Authority.

Data not available.

Youngstown area no longer being surveyed. Source: These data were compiled by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in connection with its housing statistics program. Data on private residential building started are based on reports from building-permit issuing offices and from building contractors and others in nonpermit issuing as well as in permit issuing places in the areas shown. Building permit data are corrected for lapsed permits and lag between issuance of permits and the start of construction, by follow-up of construction jobs for which permits have been issued.