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Query Builder for Air Quality Index for Utah Counties and Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) - Percent of Days by Air Quality Index Category

Overview

The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a tool for reporting daily air quality. It tells you how clean or polluted your air is, and what associated health effects might be a concern for you. The AQI data in this IBIS-Q query module have been derived from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Air Quality System Data Mart. The data include values for Utah counties or Utah core based statistical areas (CBSA). AQI is an indicator of overall air quality because it considers all the criteria air pollutants measured within a geographic area. Although AQI includes all available pollutant measurements, you should be aware that many areas have monitoring stations for some, but not all, of the pollutants. Furthermore, not all counties or CBSAs have air quality monitors.

Maximum AQI Value

The Maximum AQI value is the highest daily AQI value in the year.

Getting Started

Follow the steps to narrow your query and display your results. When you are done forming your query, click "Submit" at the bottom of the screen (last step) to get your query result.

  • What year grouping do you want to select? Default is single years, most recent year.

  • Selecting years

    Select a range of years. Use Ctrl to make multiple selections.

    The year groupings you select here will be used to display your results if you choose "year" below in the display the results step. For instance, if you choose "Single years" here, and choose "Year/Year Groups" in the display the results step, your query results will be displayed for single years, for the range of years you selected. If you select "3-year groups", "5-year groups" or if you enter custom year groups, your query results will be aggregated within those year groups.

  • Air Quality Index

    Good days (0-50): Air quality is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk to health.

    Moderate days (51-100): Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.

    Sensitive (101-150): Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected.

    Unhealthy days (151-200): Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects.

    Very unhealthy and hazardous days (201 or higher): This includes the AQI categories very unhealthy and hazardous. Very few locations have any days in the very unhealthy or hazardous categories. Unhealthy days: health alert; everyone may experience more serious health effects. Hazardous days: health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected.
    Select AQI days. Default is good AQI days.


  • First choose a geography type. Default is all Utah residents, regardless of place of death.

To display a map, you must select Geographic Area in Display By (category) and None in Group By (series)

Primary group by field

Defines the data's primary grouping dimension. The primary grouping is required and also controls the ordering of the result's data rows. In MS-Excel and other graphing packages this is typically referred to as the the "dataset's category". If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this value/dimension is associated with table's "row" values. Others will refer to this value as the first "cross by" or the first dimension.

Optional secondary group by field

Defines the 2nd field (or dimension) to be used to group and aggregate values by. MS-Excel chart users will commonly refer to this as the dataset's "series" field. If viewing in a 2-d table layout then this field is associated with data table's value columns. Series group bys are optional. Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified.

Optional chart graph

Defines the optional chart graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps and some charts, like the "Pie" chart, are currently not programmed to handle datasets that have more than one group by e.g. they only work with the primary category type group by being specified. All other charts will only work with a maximum of 2 group bys e.g. if the fixed group by exists then the series group by can NOT be used with charting or maps.

Optional map graph

Defines the optional map graphic to display.

NOTE: Maps are only available when the category is set to a geographical area and does not have a series defined.
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Content updated: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 17:03:46 MDT