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    • Natural Amenities Scale

    Metadata Updated: January 3, 2024

    The natural amenities scale is a measure of the physical characteristics of a county area that enhance the location as a place to live. The scale was constructed by combining six measures of climate, topography, and water area that reflect environmental qualities most people prefer. These measures are warm winter, winter sun, temperate summer, low summer humidity, topographic variation, and water area. The data are available for counties in the lower 48 States. The file contains the original measures and standardized scores for each county as well as the amenities scale.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2024
    Publisher Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-ERS-29161
    Data First Published 2019-08-20
    Data Last Modified 2019-08-20
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:13
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-scale/documentation.aspx
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    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-scale.aspx
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 005:041
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 8dd6c2c026f01c805c12c1d79c8356997b7eaa12c0403e8dc71eb56212cf32e3
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