20180801 13450800 1.0 EPA Metadata Specification NAP ISO19115 2003 FALSE 20181019 11455800 20181212 10100500 150000000 5000 NAP EPA Directory 355ca4f5f97fe0d7435057f6d8fcd908 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park National Geospatial Support Team OEI RTP NCC GIS USEPA Mailroom N127-02 Research Triangle Park NC 27711 geoservices@epa.gov https://intranet.epa.gov/rtpgis website True [EPA Directory] National Geospatial Support Team 20181212 https://gispub.epa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/ORD/EnvironmentalQualityIndex/MapServer https://edg.epa.gov/EPADataCommons/public/ORD/CPHEA/EQI_2006_2010 To summarize environmental quality for each county of the United States; to compare environmental profiles across US counties; use as a broad environmental exposure variable for health studies; use to control for co-occurring environmental hazards when attempting to isolate the effect of a single factor. The US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CHPEA) in the Public Health and Environmental Systems Division (PHESD) is currently engaged in research aimed at developing a measure that estimates overall environmental quality at the county level for the United States. This work is being conducted as an effort to learn more about how various environmental factors simultaneously contribute to health disparities in low-income and minority populations, and to better estimate the total environmental and social context to which humans are exposed. This dataset contains the finalized Environmental Quality Index (EQI), and an index for each of the associated domains (air, water, land, built environment, and sociodemographic environment). Indices are at the county level for all counties in the United States for 2006-2010. More information about the EQI can be found at https://www.epa.gov/healthresearch/epas-environmental-quality-index-supports-public-health USEPA Environmental Quality Index (EQI) and Associated Domain Indices by County for the United States 2006-2010 2018-08-01 Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) Epidemiologist [From Metadata Record] Danelle Lobdell None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currentness and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated. EPA Place Names 2015-01-31 https://ofmpub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/termreg/searchandretrieve/taxonomies/search.do?search=&searchString=&taxonomyName=WBT%20-%20Geographic%20Locations Web Taxonomy - Geographic Locations Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay Watershed Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas United States Utah Vermont Virginia Washington Washington DC West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming EPA GIS Keyword Thesaurus 2007-11-02 https://www.epa.gov/geospatial/epa-metadata-technical-specification EPA Metadata Technical Specification Air Environment Exposure Indicator Land Water Federal Program Inventory 2013-09-16 https://obamaadministration.archives.performance.gov/federalprograminventory.html Federal Program Inventory 020:053 1 -138.21454852 -12.68151645 6.65223303 61.7110157 2006-01-01T00:00:00 2010-12-31T00:00:00 Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) Epidemiologist Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) lobdell.danelle@epa.gov Epidemiologist Danelle Lobdell U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) Epidemiologist [From Metadata Record] Danelle Lobdell [From Metadata Record] Danelle Lobdell Unclassified Unrestricted License https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html EPA Public Domain License US EPA CPHEA PHESD This dataset includes 2006-2010 EQI values representing the Air, Water, Land, Built, and Sociodemographic Domain index as well as the overall Environmental Quality Index as part of the USEPA's 2006-2010 EQI project. Refer to the original data source for data limitations. See source data websites for more detail - EPA's Air Quality system (https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/documents/data_mart_welcome.html) and the National-scale Air Toxics Assessment (https://www.epa.gov/nata/); EPA's WATERS (Watershed Assessment, Tracking and Environmental Results) Database (https://www.epa.gov/waters/), the U.S. Geological Survey Estimates of Water Use in the U.S. for 2006 through 2010 (https://water.usgs.gov/watuse/), the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (http://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/), the U.S. Drought Monitor Data (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/), the EPA's National Contaminant Occurrence Database (https://water.epa.gov/scitech/datait/databases/drink/ncod/databases-index.cfm), and Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) (https://ofmpub.epa.gov/apex/sfdw/f?p=108:200::::::); 2007 Census of Agriculture (http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2007/index.asp), National Pesticide Use Database (http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/752/); Web Feature Service for National Priority List (NPL) sites (https://www.epa.gov/superfund/national-priorities-list-npl-sites-state), Mine Safety and Health Administration data (https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/OGIMSHA.asp), and Map of Radon Zones (https://www.epa.gov/radon/zonemap.html); Dun and Bradstreet North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes (http://www.dnb.com), and Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) (https://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger), Fatality Annual Reporting System (FARS) (http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (https://pic.hud.gov/pic/haprofiles/haprofilelist.asp), National Land Cover Database (NLCD) (https://www.mrlc.gov/) and Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP) (https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/), and EPA’s National Walkability Index (https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/smart-location-mapping); United States Census (http://www2.census.gov), the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (http://www.ucrdatatool.gov), the USDA ERS Creative Class County Codes (https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/creative-class-county-codes/), and US Election Atlas (https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2008). Assumptions were made in variable construction/imputation, see report for detailed discussion. 3143 This dataset contains 2006-2010 EQI values. The domain indices are: AIR INDEX: Output from a principle components analysis using 43 air pollutant variables, including both criteria and hazardous air pollutants. This index summarizes average air exposures from 2006-2010 for each county in the United States; WATER INDEX: Output from a principle components analysis using 51 water quality variables, including water impairment, waste permits, domestic water source, deposition for 6 pollutants, drought status, 39 chemical contaminants, and 1 microorganism. This index summarizes average water quality measures from 2006-2010 for each county in the United States; LAND INDEX: Output from a principle components analysis using 18 land quality variables, including pesticides, general agriculture, facilities counts, mine data, and radon rankings. This index summarizes average land quality measures from 2006-2010 for each county in the United States; BUILT INDEX: Output from a principle components analysis using 15 built environment quality variables, including street information, businesses data, highway safety information, walkability score, green space/open land, and U.S. Census data. This index summarizes average built environment quality measures from 2006-2010 for each county in the United States; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC INDEX: Output from a principle components analysis using 12 sociodemographic quality variables, including U.S. Census, Economic Resource Service, election results, and crime data. This index summarizes average sociodemographic quality measures from 2006-2010 for each county in the United States. EPA Report # EPA/600/R-14/304 (2014) Creating an Overall Environmental Quality Index - Technical Report; Messer LC, Jagai JS, Rappazzo KM, Lobdell DT. (2014) Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research. Environmental Health 13:39 doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-39; Lobdell DT, Jagai JS, Rappazzo K, Messer LC. (2011) Data sources for environmental assessment: determining availability, quality and utility, American Journal of Public Health Suppl 1:S277-85 69C79C39-9709-4FF0-8411-F8F69D3728B3 2022-10-19T00:00:00