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Available Data
Class | Description | FlowBySector Reference Unit | Flow Types |
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Chemicals | Chemicals and groups of chemicals as defined in the Federal Elementary Flow List | kg | Modeled as ELEMENTARY_FLOWS produced by sectors |
Employment | Jobs | p | Modeled as ELEMENTARY_FLOWS produced by sectors |
Energy | Energy consumption, transfer as electricity or waste heat | MJ | All types |
Geological | Mineral and metal use | kg | All types |
Land | Land area occupied | m2 | Modeled as ELEMENTARY_FLOWS consumed by sectors |
Money | Purchases | USDyear* | Modeled as TECHNOSPHERE_FLOWS with producing and consuming sectors |
Water | Water use and release data, including wastewater | kg | All types |
Other | Misc flows used for supporting data | varies | All types |
*USD unit value varies by year and is reported like 'USD2012'
Source data are imported and formatted into FlowByActivity datasets. The source data are only modified to meet column formatting criteria, meaning units are not standardized across "Class" types.
Code | Dataset | Class | Geographic Scale | Description | Years |
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BEA_GDP_GrossOutput | Bureau of Economic Analysis Gross Output by Industry | Money | National | Gross output | 2007-2018 |
BEA_Make_AR | Bureau of Economic Analysis Make Table After Redefinition | Money | National | Gross output, producer value, after redefinition | 2002 |
BEA_Make_Detail_BeforeRedef | [Bureau of Economic Analysis Make Before Redefinitions]((https://www.bea.gov/industry/input-output-accounts-data) | Money | National | Gross output before redefinition, detail level | 2012 |
BEA_Use_Detail_PRO_BeforeRedef | [Bureau of Economic Analysis Use Before Redefinitions]((https://www.bea.gov/industry/input-output-accounts-data) | Money | National | Gross output before redefinition, detail level, producer value | 2012 |
BLM_PLS | Bureau of Land Management Public Land Statistics | Land | National | Land resources and information | 2007, 2011, 2012 |
BLS_QCEW | Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages | Employment, Money, Other | County | Number of employees per industry, Annual payroll per industry, Number of establishments per industry | 2002, 2010-2018 |
Blackhurst_IO | Input-Output Vector of 2002 Water Withdrawals for the United States | Water | National | Input-Output vectors of US water withdrawals | 2002 |
CalRecycle_WasteCharacterization | CalRecycle | Other | California | Disposal-Facility-Based Characterization of Solid Waste in California | 2014 |
Census_CBP | Census Bureau County Business Patterns | Employment, Money, Other | County | Number of employees per industry, Annual payroll per industry, Number of establishments per industry | 2010-2017 |
Census_PEP_Population | Census Bureau Population Estimates | Other | County | Population | 2010, 2013-2017 |
Census_VIP | Value of Construction Put in Place | Money | National | Construction Spending | 2009-2020 |
EIA_CBECS_Land | Energy Information Administration Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey | Land | National | Floorspace by building type | 2012 |
EIA_CBECS_Water | Energy Information Administration Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey | Water | Country | Water consumption in large buildings | 2012 |
EIA_MECS_Energy | Energy Information Administration Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey | Energy, Other | Region | Fuel and nonfuel consumption of energy flows by manufacturing industries | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
EIA_MECS_Land | Energy Information Administration Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey | Land | National, Regional | Floorspace by building type | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
EIA_MER | Energy Information Administration Monthly Energy Review | Energy | National | Energy consumption and production | 2010-2020 |
EPA_CDDPath | Construction and Demolition Debris | Other | National | Estimates of amount and disposition of Construction and Demolition materials | 2014 |
EPA_EQUATES | Air QUAlity TimE Series Project | Chemicals | Chemical atmospheric concentrations and deposition | 2002-2017 | |
EPA_GHGI | Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks | Chemicals, Energy, Other | National | US GHG emissions and sinks by source, economic sector, and greenhouse gas | 2010-2019 |
EPA_NEI_Nonpoint | Environmental Protection Agency National Emissions Inventory Nonpoint sources | Chemicals | County | Air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants | 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 |
EPA_NEI_Nonroad | Environmental Protection Agency National Emissions Inventory Nonroad sources | Chemicals | County | Air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants | 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 |
EPA_NEI_Onroad | Environmental Protection Agency National Emissions Inventory Onroad sources | Chemicals | County | Air emissions of criteria pollutants, criteria precursors, and hazardous air pollutants | 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017 |
EPA_NI | 2002, 2007, 2012 | ||||
EPA_PI | 2002, 2007, 2012 | ||||
NETL_EIA_PlantWater | 2015 | ||||
NOAA_FisheryLandings | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries | Money | State | Fishery landings | 2012-2018 |
StatCan_GDP | Statistics Canada Gross Domestic Product | Money | Canada | 2010-2015 | |
StatCan_IWS_MI | Statistics Canada Industrial Water Survey | Water | Country | Water use by NAICS | 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 |
StatCan_LFS | Statistics Canada Labour Force Study | Employment | Canada | 2010-2019 | |
USDA_ACUP_Fertilizer | 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 | ||||
USDA_ACUP_Pesticide | 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020 | ||||
USDA_CoA_Cropland | USDA Census of Agriculture | Land, Other | County | Crop area by farm size and irrigation status | 2012, 2017 |
USDA_CoA_Cropland_NAICS | USDA Census of Agriculture | 2012, 2017 | |||
USDA_CoA_Livestock | USDA Census of Agriculture | Other | County | Livestock count by farm size | 2012, 2017 |
USDA_ERS_FIWS | USDA Farm Income and Wealth Statistics | Money | National | 2010-2019 | |
USDA_ERS_MLU | USDA Major Land Use | Land | National | 2007, 2012 | |
USDA_IWMS | USDA Irrigation and Water Management Survey | Water | State | Water application rate by state and crop | 2013, 2018 |
USGS_MYB | USGS Mineral Yearbook | 2012-2018 | |||
USGS_NWIS_WU | US Geological Survey Water Use in the US | Water | County | Annual national level water use by various activities | 2010, 2015 |
USGS_SPARROW | USGS SPARROW MAPPERS | Chemicals | HUC | Phosphorus and Nitrogen in streams and coastal waters | 2012 |
USGS_WU_Coef | USDA Water Use Coefficients | Water | National | 2005 |
Environmental data attributed to North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) Codes, formatted into standard FlowBySector datasets.
Description | Code | Years | Number of methods of sector allocation |
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Commercial RCRA-defined hazardous waste | CRHW_national_"year" | 2017 | 1 |
Criteria and hazardous air emissions | CAP_HAP_national_"year" | 2017 | 1 |
Employment | Employment_national_"year" | 2017 | 1 |
Land use | Land_national_"year" | 2012 | 1 |
Point source industrial releases to ground | GRDREL_national_"year" | 2017 | 1 |
Point source releases to water | TRI_DMR_national_"year" | 2017 | 1 |
Water withdrawal | Water_national_"year" | 2010, 2015 | 3 |
Water withdrawal | Water_state_"year" | 2015 | 1 |
flowsa is developed and maintained by Office of Research & Development (ORD), Center for Environmental Solutions & Emergency Response (CESER), Land Remediation & Technology Division (LRTD), Environmental Decision Analytics Branch (EDAB), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268. See OMB Memorandum M-16-21 Section 4 & Releasing Open Source Code.
Objectives
Projects Using FLOWSA Output
Install & Run
Example Code
Reading Parquet Files
Using FLOWSA
Loading External FBS Method YAMLs
API Keys
Troubleshooting
Contributing
Creating a Flow-By-Activity Dataset
Creating a Flow-By-Activity Crosswalk
Creating a Flow-By-Sector Dataset
FBA and FBS Naming Convention
NAICS Crosswalk
Available Data
Flow Classes
Flow-By-Activity Datasets
Flow-By-Sector Datasets
Data Storage
EPA's Tools for Industrial Ecology
Suggested Citations for FLOWSA and FBS Data
Publications and Presentations
Acknowledgements