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Yet challenges remain, including efforts to improve data collection and dissemination and to increase public understanding of and appreciation for the uses of the data discussed in this report. Federal data programs have been developed primarily to carry out agency-specific missions.
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This effort is the result of the historical development of the federal data system tracing back to the midnineteenth century (Norwood, 1995.) Decentralization offers advantages and drawbacks.
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This userfriendly web site provides access to multiple datasets. American FactFinder (http: //factfinder.census.~ov /servlet/BasicFactsServlet)
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prepares regional economic accounts for the United States to provide estimates of state and local-area personal income and gross state product. For state personal income and gross state product, BEA's regional estimates are comparable across each region and state, and for local-area personal income, BEA's regional estimates are comparable across each metropolitan area, BEA economic area, and county.
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(http: / /www.bls.gov/home.htm) BLS provides three types of data for use in place-based and regional planning: labor force status of persons by place of residence; jobs and wages by place of work; and prices and living conditions.
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program is a partnership led by NRCS of federal land management agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, and state and local units of government that provide soil survey information necessary for understanding, managing, conserving, and sustaining the nation's limited soil resources. Soil surveys provide a scientific inventory of soil resources including maps that display locations and extent of soils, and data regarding the physical and chemical properties of those soils.
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Smart Travel Resources Database (http: / /yosemite.epa.gov: /aa/strc.nsf) This web site provides information about campaigns that encourage people to make travel decisions that have positive impacts on air quality, congestion, and quality of life.
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160 APPENDIX A EPA's Envirofacts Database (http: / /www.epa.gov/enviro/indexjava.html) EPA's Envirofacts database and mapping applications web site a single point of access to a wide range of the agency's data provides access to several EPA databases about emissions, pollutants, and activities affecting air, water, and land in the United States.
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(http: / /www.usgs.gov) The USGS web site provides an enormous variety of materials, including fact sheets, data, maps, reports, and links to other sites of interest.
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Examples of digital geospatial data include soils, county boundaries, volcanoes, and watersheds. Crime patterns, population distribution, and incidence of disease are examples of geostatistical data.
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This site provides current news regarding climate change and access to datasets of climate change data. The site contains links to relevant agency programs.
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The NSDI, established by Executive Order 12906, provides for a consistent means of sharing geographic data among all users to produce significant savings in data collection and provides geospatial data throughout all levels of government, private and nonprofit sectors, and the academic community. The goals of this infrastructure include reducing duplication of effort among agencies; improving quality and reducing costs of geographic information in order to make geographic data more accessible to the public; increasing the benefits of using available data; and establishing key partnerships with states, counties, cities, tribal nations, academia, and the private sector to increase data availability.
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The web site provides information, background research papers, and links to data sources. An extensive and well-documented report on indicators for sustainable development in the United States, entitled "Sustainable Development in the United States: An Experimental Set of Indicators," is available.
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166 APPENDIX A REFERENCES Cortright, J., and A Reamer.
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