MiEJScreen Draft Data [Michigan]
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- MiEJScreen Draft Data [Michigan]
- Description
- MiEJScreenis an interactive mapping tool that identifies Michigan communities that may be disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards. The map allows users to explore the environmental, health, and socioeconomic conditions within a specific community, region, or across the entire state. This is the main dataset behind the draft web app. Note that this app and data are currently labeled "DRAFT" as we are collecting public comments about them. See below for information on how to submit your own comments. These data sets can be viewed individually or combined into a final MiEJScreen score that allows users to understand how communities experience environmental justice impacts relative to others. These results are depicted in the form of maps so that different communities can be compared to one another. A census tract with a high score is one that experiences higher pollution burden and vulnerability than census tracts with low scores. MiEJScreen ranks census tracts based on data that are available from state and federal government sources. The MiEJScreen overall score is made up of two sub scores (Environmental Conditions and Population Characteristics) which are further divided into four categories. There are two categories representing Environmental Conditions: Exposures and Environmental Effects, and two categories representing Population Characteristics: Sensitive Populations and Socioeconomic Factors. Each of the categories has a set of indicators that are scored for each census tract by its raw value, then assigned percentiles based on rank-order. Those percentile scores are averaged for each of the four categories (Exposures, Environmental Effects, Sensitive Populations, and Socioeconomic Factors). This feature layer consists of the MiEJScreen overall score, 2 sub scores, 4 categories and 26 MiEJScreen indicators. See below for the specific scores, categories, and indicators. The text in parentheses and italics are the field names found in this draft dataset:MiEJScreen Overall Score (MiEJScreenOverallScore)Environmental Conditions Sub Score (EnvironmentalConditionsSubScore)Population Characteristics Sub Score (PopCharacteristicsSubScore)Exposure Category (ExposureCategory)NATA Air Toxics Cancer Risks (NATAAirToxicsCancerRisks)NATA Respiratory Hazard Index (NATARespiratoryHazardIndex)NATA Diesel Particulate Matter (NATADieselParticulateMatter)Particulate Matter PM2.5 (ParticulateMatter25)Ozone (Ozone)Traffic Density (TrafficDensity)Environmental Effects Category (EnvironmentalEffectsCategory)Proximity to Cleanup Sites (ProximityCleanupSites)Proximity to Hazardous Waste Facilities (ProximityHazWasteFacilities)Impaired Water Bodies (ImparedWaterBody)Proximity to Solid Waste Sites and Facilities (ProximitySolidWasteFacilities)Lead Paint Indicator (LeadPaintIndicator)Proximity to Risk Management Plan (RMP) Sites (ProximityRiskMgmtPlanSites)Wastewater Discharge Indicator (WastewaterDischargeIndicator)Sensitive Populations Category (SensitivePopulationsCategory)Asthma (Asthma)Cardiovascular Disease (CardiovascularDisease)Low Birth Weight Infants (LowBirthWeightInfants)Blood Lead Level (BloodLeadLevel)Life Expectancy Years (LifeExpectancyYears)Life Expectancy (LifeExpectancyNegPercentile)Socioeconomic Factors Category (SocioeconomicFactorsCategory)Low Income Population (LowIncomePopulation)Black, Indigenous, People of Color Population (MinorityPopulation)Educational Attainment (EducationalAttainment)Linguistic Isolation (LinguisticIsolation)Population Under Age 5 (PopulationUnder5)Population Over Age 64 (PopulationOver64)Unemployment (Unemployed)Housing Burden (HousingBurden) Additional fields in this dataset:OBJECTIDGEOIDLandAreaSqMetersWaterAreaSqMetersTractNameCountyGeoIdNumberTotalPopulationAreaSqMilesPopulationDensityUnemploymentRateMedianHouseholdIncomeShapeShape.STAreaShape.STLengthFor more information on Environmental Justice in Michigan, please visithttps://www.michigan.gov/environmentaljustice/.SeeMiEJScreen Technical Reportfor details on the component and the indicators.Public comments on the tool and data are welcome in any of the following ways by May 16, 2022:By email:EGLE-EnvironmentalJustice@michigan.govIn writing to: EGLE Office of Environmental Justice Public AdvocateConstitution Hall, P.O. Box 30473, Lansing, MI 48909-7973At the public comment opportunities on April 27, 2022 (See theMiEJScreen websitefor more information).If you have questions about the tool or how to provide comment, please contact the Office of Environmental Justice Public Advocate atEGLE-EnvironmentalJustice@Michigan.gov.
- Creator
- Michigan Dept. of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
- Temporal Coverage
- Last modified 2023-09-15
- Date Issued
- 2022-03-24
- Access Rights
- Public
- Format
- Shapefile
- Language
- English
- Date Added
- August 28, 2025
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Michigan Dept. of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (2022). MiEJScreen Draft Data [Michigan]. . https://gis-michigan.opendata.arcgis.com/maps/egle::miejscreen-draft-data (web service) -
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