The Census Historical Environmental Impacts Frame

Jennifer R. Withrow, Kendall A. Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Suvy Qin and John L. Voorheis

Working Papers from U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies

Abstract: The Census Bureau’s Environmental Impacts Frame (EIF) is a microdata infrastructure that combines individual-level information on residence, demographics, and economic characteristics with environmental amenities and hazards from 1999 through the present day. To better understand the long-run consequences and intergenerational effects of exposure to a changing environment, we expand the EIF by extending it backward to 1940. The Historical Environmental Impacts Frame (HEIF) combines the Census Bureau’s historical administrative data, publicly available 1940 address information from the 1940 Decennial Census, and historical environmental data. This paper discusses the creation of the HEIF as well as the unique challenges that arise with using the Census Bureau’s historical administrative data.

Date: 2024-10
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