Regional Weights Table by Sector

This paper is an intermediate result from the work for "Estimating Economic Damage from Climate Change in the United States".

This tables contains the set of "weights" used to aggregated impacts across regions.  These weights are roughly equivalent to the baseline quantity available to be affected in each sector, during the baseline period, 2000 - 2010.

The file contains a row for the national weights, rows for each NCA region, and for each state.  Each column is a sector as named in the first header row, with units defined in the second header row.

Additional sector-specific notes are below:

Crime:

We assumed that crime rates in unobserved counties were equal to the average of crime rates in observed counties.

Mortality:

Mortality weights are the age-specific populations.  The population counts for age-based mortality and the total mortality weights won't add up, because they are from different years.  Age-based population is from an average of 1999 - 2010, from the same dataset as the age-based mortality rates.  On the other hand, total mortality weights use 2010 census data.

We assumed that the portion of population in each age cohort for unobserved counties is the same as the average of observed counties.

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