2010 County and City-Level Water-Use Data and Associated Explanatory Variables

This data release contains the input-data files and R scripts associated with the analysis presented in Worland and others (2018). The spatial extent of the data is the contiguous U.S. The input-data files include one comma separated value (csv) file of county-level data, and one csv file of city-level data. The county-level csv (“county_data.csv”) contains data for 3,109 counties. This data includes two measures of water use, descriptive information about each county, three grouping variables (climate region, urban class, and economic dependency), and contains 18 explanatory variables: proportion of population growth from 2000-2010, fraction of withdrawals from surface water, average daily water yield, mean annual...

Categories: Data; Tags: 3,109 counties and county equivalents in contiguous U.S., 83 cities in the contiguous U.S., Hierarchical Bayesian models, Public-supply water use, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags... Water Resources, multivariate statistical analysis, Fewer tags