FluTE Synthetic Ecosystems for Los Angeles County

Data files

A set of 3 data files needs to be in the same directory as the
executable to specify a population for FluTE. The file names consist of
a prefix (e.g., "seattle") followed by a suffix.


*-tracts.dat - Tract populations and locations, from
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/cntpop2k.html. The columns in
this comma-delimited file are: state FIPS code, county FIPS code,
tract FIPS code, tract population, tract longitude, and tract
latitude.


*-wf.dat - Tract-to-tract workerflow, extracted from stp64.us from
Census 2000 Special Tabulation Product 64: Census tract of work by
census tract of residence 2000. For the US-level data. Commutes over
100 miles were eliminated from the data. The columns in this space-
delimited file are: home state FIPS code, home county FIPS code, home
tract FIPS code, work state FIPS code, work county FIPS code, work
tract FIPS code, and number of workers.


*-employment.dat - The number of employed working-age adults and the
total number of working-age adults, from the Census Summary File 3
(SF3, Table PCT35). The columns in this space-delimited file are:
state FIPS code, county FIPS code, tract FIPS code, number of employed
20-64 year olds, and the total number of working-age individuals
(19-64 year olds).

This sample population is:

la - Los Angeles County. la-tracts.dat is not from the 2000 Census;
It is based on 2007 PEPS estimates from Walter R. McDonald &
Associates, Inc. (WRMA) and padded with an additional 776,000
individuals to represent the estimated undocumented population
[Flaming et al. Hopeful Workers, Marginal Jobs. 2005]. The other
"la" data files are based on the 2000 US Census.