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    • Smoke Alarm Distribution

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2022

    This data set contains estimates of the percentage smoke detector utilization at the Census Tract level for the United States. Development of this data set is described in NIST TN 2020 (see references below).

    The zip file contains the data in shapefile format. Each record is a single census tract (using the 2013 Tiger files for census tracts) with associated data.

    Fields contained in the data set are:

    geoid: Geographic ID of the census tract. Format is '14000USXXYYYZZZZZZ', where XX is the FIPS code for the state, YYY is the FIPS code for the county, and ZZZZZZ is the census tract number. This field serves as a unique ID for the dataset.

    state: FIPS code for the state.

    county: FIPS code for the county.

    tract: Tract number.

    smsa: Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area as used in the American Housing Survey.

    PUMA: Public Use Microdata Area ID.

    region: Census region.

    dtctrs: Estimated fraction of households in the census tract with smoke detectors installed.

    Access & Use Information

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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2020

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 11, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2022

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NIST

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 11, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2022
    Publisher National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Maintainer
    Identifier 76544CA76ADE200DE05324570681FE0E1973
    Data First Published 2019-10-07
    Language en
    Data Last Modified 2018-09-25 00:00:00
    Category Fire:Fire detection, Fire:Fire risk reduction, Fire:Emergency building evacuation
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 006:55
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    Harvest Source Id 74e175d9-66b3-4323-ac98-e2a90eeb93c0
    Harvest Source Title NIST
    Homepage URL https://data.nist.gov/od/id/76544CA76ADE200DE05324570681FE0E1973
    License https://www.nist.gov/open/license
    Program Code 006:045
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2020
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2e0eba580fe0192310adb1eab9b0ae8980237e06
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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