EnviroAtlas - Percentage of Working Age Population Who Are Employed by Block Group for the Conterminous United States

Metadata Updated: August 30, 2023

This EnviroAtlas dataset shows the employment rate, or the percent of the population aged 16-64 who have worked in the past 12 months. The employment rate is a measure of the percent of the working-age population who are employed. It is an indicator of the prevalence of unemployment, which is often used to assess labor market conditions by economists. It is a widely used metric to evaluate the sustainable development of communities (NRC, 2011, UNECE, 2009). This dataset is based on the American Community Survey 5-year data for 2008-2012. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date	May 22, 2017
Metadata Created Date	August 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date	August 30, 2023
Reference Date(s)	June 9, 2015 (publication)
Frequency Of Update	asNeeded

Additional Metadata

Resource Type	Dataset
Metadata Date	May 22, 2017
Metadata Created Date	August 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date	August 30, 2023
Reference Date(s)	June 9, 2015 (publication)
Responsible Party	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas (Point of Contact)
Contact Email	EnviroAtlas@epa.gov
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Access Constraints	Use Constraints: None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currency 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., Access Constraints: None.
Bbox East Long	-65.20336449
Bbox North Lat	51.6773602
Bbox South Lat	22.7348894
Bbox West Long	-128.02839229
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update	asNeeded
Harvest Object Id	cc4da2f5-9f03-421d-8b10-ff3cd1ebdf6a
Harvest Source Id	9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title	Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence	https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm
Licence Url	https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.htm
Lineage	This lineage was generated by the FGDC CSDGM to 19139 transformation
Metadata Language	eng; USA
Metadata Type	geospatial
Old Spatial	{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-128.02839229, 22.7348894], [-65.20336449, 22.7348894], [-65.20336449, 51.6773602], [-128.02839229, 51.6773602], [-128.02839229, 22.7348894]]]}
Progress	completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System
Spatial Harvester	True
Temporal Extent Begin	2008-01-01
Temporal Extent End	2012-01-01

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