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USEPA Environmental Quality Index (EQI) and Associated Domain Indices by County for the United States 2006-2010

Metadata Updated: February 25, 2025

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

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Dates

Metadata Date June 17, 2021
Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
Reference Date(s) August 1, 2018 (publication)
Frequency Of Update irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date June 17, 2021
Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 25, 2025
Reference Date(s) August 1, 2018 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) (Point of Contact, Publisher)
Contact Email
Guid 69C79C39-9709-4FF0-8411-F8F69D3728B3
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
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Bbox North Lat 61.7110157
Bbox South Lat 6.65223303
Bbox West Long -138.21454852
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update irregular
Harvest Object Id d3643aab-3cb7-4094-b288-794548457116
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence 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.
Lineage
Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System EPSG:4326
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2006-01-01T00:00:00
Temporal Extent End 2010-12-31T00:00:00

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