emburden: Processed Energy Burden Datasets (North Carolina)

PROCESSED, analysis-ready household energy burden datasets from the DOE Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool, formatted for the emburden R package. Scope: North Carolina (proof-of-concept demonstration) IMPORTANT: These are PRE-PROCESSED datasets, not raw OpenEI data. They have been: Aggregated by census tract + income bracket Enriched with computed energy burden metrics (EROI, NER, DEAR) Standardized for immediate analysis Quality-checked and validated This repository provides census tract-level data on household energy burden for North Carolina, covering ~1,600 census tracts. Data includes both Area Median Income (AMI) and Federal Poverty Line (FPL) cohort analyses for 2018 and 2022 vintages. Files Included: lead_ami_cohorts_2022_us.csv.gz: 2022 AMI cohort data (15K records, NC) lead_fpl_cohorts_2022_us.csv.gz: 2022 FPL cohort data (588K records, NC) lead_ami_cohorts_2018_us.csv.gz: 2018 AMI cohort data (531K records, NC) lead_fpl_cohorts_2018_us.csv.gz: 2018 FPL cohort data (515K records, NC) checksums.txt: MD5 checksums for verification Data Processing Source: Raw LEAD Tool data from OpenEI Processing: emburden R package v0.4.7 data pipeline Format: CSV (aggregated tract-level cohorts with computed metrics) Ready for: Immediate analysis, no additional processing required Future Expansion This proof-of-concept can be expanded to nationwide data (all 51 states, ~72,000 census tracts) in future versions. Data Sources Original raw data from: DOE LEAD Tool 2022: https://data.openei.org/submissions/6219 DOE LEAD Tool 2018: https://data.openei.org/submissions/573 Processed using: emburden R package v0.4.7 (https://github.com/ScheierVentures/emburden) Citation When using this data, please cite: This Zenodo repository (DOI provided) The emburden R package v0.4.7 The original DOE LEAD Tool publications License CC-BY-4.0 (same as source data)