Available Data

Flow Classes

Class	Description	FlowBySector Reference Unit	Flow Types
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'

Flow-By-Activity Datasets

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
BEA_GDP_GrossOutput	Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP Gross Output	Money	National		2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
BEA_Make_AR					2002
BEA_Make_Detail_BeforeRedef	Bureau of Economic Analysis Make Before Redefinitions	Money	National		2012
BEA_Use_Detail_PRO_BeforeRedef	Bureau of Economic Analysis Use Before Redefinitions	Money	National		2012
BLM_PLS	Bureau of Land Management Public Land Statistics	Land	National		2007, 2011, 2012
BLS_QCEW	Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages	Employment, Money, Other	County	Number of employees per industry	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Blackhurst_IO	Input-Output Vector of 2002 Water Withdrawals for the United States	Water	National		2002
CalRecycle_WasteCharacterization					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, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Census_PEP_Population	Census Bureau Population Estimates	Other	County	Population	2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
EIA_CBECS_Land	Energy Information Administration Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey	Land			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
EIA_MECS_Land	Energy Information Administration Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey	Land	National, Regional		2010, 2014
EIA_MER	Energy Information Administration Monthly Energy Review	Energy	National		2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
EPA_GHGI	Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks	Chemicals, Energy, Other	National		2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
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
NOAA_FisheryLandings	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries	Money	State	Fishery landings	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
StatCan_GDP	Statistics Canada Gross Domestic Product	Money	Canada		2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 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, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2018, 2019
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, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 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_SodaAsh					2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2015, 2016, 2017
USGS_NWIS_WU	US Geological Survey Water Use in the US	Water	County	Annual national level water use by various activities	2010, 2015
USGS_WU_Coef	USDA Water Use Coefficients	Water	National		2005

Flow-By-Sector Datasets

Environmental data attributed to North American Industrial Classification (NAICS) Codes, formatted into standard FlowBySector datasets.

Description	Code	Years	Number of methods of sector allocation
Criteria and hazardous air emissions	CAP_HAP_national	2017	1
Employment	Employment_national	2017	1
Land use	Land_national	2012	1
Water withdrawal	Water_national	2010, 2015	3
Water withdrawal	Water_state	2015	1
Point source releases to water	TRI_DMR_national	2017	1
Commercial RCRA-defined hazardous waste	CRHW_national	2017	1
Point source industrial releases to ground	GRDREL_national	2017	1