Housing Data: Choose a Caption
Practice choosing a caption for an annotated graphic, then check your answer.
Choose a caption.
Census/HUD, 2026-10-20: U.S. total privately-owned housing starts, seasonally adjusted annual rate. September (preliminary) versus August (revised). Monthly change estimate −5.2%; margin ±11.8 percentage points. 90% confidence interval: sampling variability only; includes zero, direction unresolved.
−17.0% to +6.6%; estimate −5.2%; includes zero.
- Qualified estimate.
- Established decline.
- Exact stability.
For this comparison only; no forecasts or personal probabilities.
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