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Census block internal point coordinates and weights formatted specifically for use in R code of the Environmental Justice Analysis Multisite (EJAM) tool, USA, 2020, EPA, EPA AO OP ORPM

Metadata Updated: September 8, 2023

This is Census 2020 block data specifically formatted for use by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in-development Environmental Justice Analysis Multisite (EJAM) tool, which uses R code to find which block centroids are within X miles of each specified point (e.g., regulated facility), and to find those distances. The datasets have latitude and longitude of each block's internal point, as provided by Census Bureau, and the FIPS code of the block and its parent block group. The datasets also include a weight for each block, representing this block's Census 2020 population count as a fraction of the count for the parent block group overall, for use in estimating how much of a given block group is within X miles of a specified point or inside a polygon of interest. The datasets also have an effective radius of each block, which is what the radius would be in miles if the block covered the same area in square miles but were circular. The datasets also have coordinates in units that facilitate building a quadtree index of locations. They are in R data.table format, saved as .rda or .arrow files to be read by R code.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 8, 2023
Metadata Updated Date September 8, 2023

Metadata Source

Harvested from OA Non Geo Harvest

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 8, 2023
Metadata Updated Date September 8, 2023
Publisher OP,ORPM
Maintainer
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Language en, en-us
Data Last Modified 2023-09-07
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 020:00
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Metadata Catalog ID https://edg.epa.gov/data/PUBLIC/OA/metadata/OA.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Object Id e539e951-45bd-48c7-bcb9-63042965cdc0
Harvest Source Id 3e2a8414-5008-41da-b37e-813497b299a0
Harvest Source Title OA Non Geo Harvest
License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Primary IT Investment UII 020-100000050
Program Code 020:041
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 44f802dbdf3c6960213d944773ca2591d194f64f4597db1f38b9e42493b3819f
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 2020/2029

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