Chronic Disease and the Environment

2006 Environmental Quality and Metropolitan Area Data and Documentation

Available Project Years
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

Data Information

2006 Air Quality System Overview document Please read this document before performing any data analyses. Provides information on the Air Quality System (AQS), Air Quality Index (AQI), data limitations, variables for analyses, and statistical and analytical issues.	613K
2006 Metropolitan Area Prevalence Tables	Web page
2006 Metropolitan Area Data Weighting Methodology Provides information on the background, design, data collection and processing, and statistical and analytical issues.	237K
Annual Summary of Particulate Matter (PM2.5) AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	186K
Annual Summary of Particulate Matter (PM10) AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	172K
Annual Summary of Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	142K
Annual Summary of Carbon Monoxide (CO) AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	151K
Annual Summary of Ozone (O3) AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	182K
Annual Summary of Daily AQI Values for Selected Metropolitan Areas, 2006	217K

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Data Files

The data files are provided in ASCII and SAS Transport formats. There are 149,914 records for 2006.

2006 Air Quality System Summary Data	41K
Variable Layout for 2006 Air Quality System Summary	10K
2006 Metropolitan Area Data (ASCII) Data released December 10, 2008 This file is in ASCII format. It has a fixed record length of 1259 positions.	13MB
Variable Layout for 2006 Metropolitan Area Data Format information on variable name by column position for Metropolitan Area Data.	104K
2006 Metropolitan Area Data (SAS Transport Format) Data released December 10, 2008 This file was exported from SAS V8.2 in the XPT transport format. This file contains 279 variables. This format can be imported into SPSS or STATA. Please note: Some of the variable labels get truncated in the process of converting to the XPT format so they may be slightly different from what is on the PMSA_SASOUT06.SAS program.	24MB

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SAS Resources

PMSA_sasout06 SAS for Windows program to convert the ASCII file into a SAS dataset.	29K

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