Social, Economic, Environmental, Demographic Information System (SEEDIS)

SEEDIS contains information on Census, energy, environment, geography, health, population characteristics, and socioeconomic status. SEEDIS allows the user to produce graphical and map presentations of analyses of combinations of these data for a variety of geographic levels and scope. SEEDIS' census information relates to population size by major racial and ethnic groupings for 1970 and 1980.

These data are variously available at the national, state, county, city and census tract level. SEEDIS' energy information relates to electrical generating capacity for 1960 through 1995. These data are available at the national, county, and standardized metropolitan statistical area (SMSA) level.

The data system also contains 1970 residential housing data, and heating energy requirements in 1970, and biomass resources for 1976 and 2025 at the county geographic level. SEEDIS' environmental information relates to air quality measurements for criteria pollutants. The data are available for 1974 through 1976 at the census tract level.

They are derived from the AIRS data system (formerly SAROAD). Assessments include total suspended particulates (TSP), sulfur and nitrogen dioxides, photochemical oxidants, ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfates, and total and nonmethane hydrocarbons. For each pollutant, county estimates of pollutant concentration (at the position of the county population centroid) were calculated as the weighted geometric means of measurements from nearby stations, including stations in nearby counties.

The location of the air quality monitoring stations is also available from the National Air Monitoring Stations (NAMS) data system. SEEDIS' geographic information relates to the centroids of the 1970 household populations. The data are available for a variety of geographic levels.

The areas, centroids, and boundaries of census tracts and counties are also included. SEEDIS' health information relates to age-, sex-, and race-specific total mortality. The data are available for geographic levels as small as counties for the years 1969 through 1984.

In addition, total annual leukemia mortality is available. Cancer incidence for 1973 through 1981 from the Surveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results (SEER) registers is included for the states that participate in the program. SEEDIS' population relates to age-, race-, and sex-specific population counts (from the 1980 Census) and estimates for the years 1950 to 1987.

The data are available for varying geographic levels. Estimates are available from a variety of sources. SEEDIS' economic information relates to labor force, employment by industry, income, education, fertility.

It also contains data on the Census of Agriculture and many county- and state-specific data. LANGUAGE: English ACCESS/AVAILABILITY: Data Center: University of California at Berkeley (UCB) Dissemination Media: Hard copy (specialized data extraction service at cost), tape copies of selected data files File Format: Access Instructions: Contact the data center. Size: Memory Requirements: Operating System: Hardware Required: Software Required: Availability Status: On Request Documentation Available: