What does EJScreen stand for?
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What does EJScreen stand for?
Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool
EJScreen: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool.
What is the demographic index?
Demographic Index is based on the average of two demographic indicators; low-income and people of color.
How do you interpret demographic index?
An index of 200 means the visitor is twice as likely, 50 means half as likely, and so on. The higher the index, the better the site is at attracting that type of audience.
How do you read EJScreen data?
In EJScreen, if your results indicate that an area is 48% minority and is at the 69th national percentile, this means that 48% of the area’s population is minority, and that is an equal or higher % minority than where 69% of the US population lives.
What is an EJ index?
An EJ Index combines demographic factors with a single environmental factor. For example, the EJ Index for traffic is a combination of the following populations residing in the Census block group: The traffic indicator. The low-income population. The minority population.
What are key demographic indicators?
We consider demographic indicators as age, sex, race/ethnicity, education level, geography, economic status, and underlying conditions.
How does the EPA use EJScreen?
EPA uses EJScreen as a preliminary step when considering environmental justice in certain situations. The agency uses it to screen for areas that may be candidates for additional consideration, analysis or outreach as EPA develops programs, policies and activities that may affect communities.
What does EJ index mean?
The EJ index is a combination of environmental and demographic information. There are eleven EJ Indexes in EJScreen reflecting the 12 environmental indicators. The 12 EJ Index names are: Particulate Matter 2.5. Ozone.
What are the five environmental indicators?
We will focus on five global-scale environmental indicators: biological diversity, food production, average global surface temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere, human population, and resource depletion. These key environmental indicators help us analyze the health of the planet.
How do you show demographic data?
There are many methods for how to visualize demographic data well such as:
- Color coding.
- Pie charts.
- Bar charts.
- Line charts.
When was EJScreen created?
Development of EJScreen began in late 2010 and EPA began using an early version in 2012. EJScreen was peer reviewed in early 2014, and released to the public in 2015. Since the public release, EJScreen has been and will continue to be updated annually with the newest and best data available.
