World Bank ToxInt Database 1996, Intensity of Toxic Pollution from Industry

Indonesia, United States, 1996

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Reference ID

WLD_1996_TID_v01_M

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/d1nk-pf34

Producer(s)

David Wheeler, Mala Hettige and Manjula Singh

Collection(s)

Development Research Microdata

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Identification

Survey ID number

WLD_1996_TID_v01_M

Title

World Bank ToxInt Database 1996

Subtitle

Intensity of Toxic Pollution from Industry

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Indonesia	IDN
United States	USA

Study type

Macroeconomics - Indicators

Abstract

Toxic intensities and risk for 246 Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) chemicals. Similar to the IPPS data, these intensities can be used to estimate toxic chemical load given employment, value of output, or value added.

The ToxInt database has been produced by the World Bank's Economics of Industrial Pollution research team, in collaboration with the Center for Economic Studies of the U.S. Census Bureau <http://www.census.gov/>. The dataset provides pollution intensities and the corresponding toxic risks for 246 chemicals in the U.S. EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory <http://go.worldbank.org/QQREY33ET0> (TRI).

The IPPS project has aimed to establish initial benchmarks of pollution intensity and toxic risk in manufacturing sectors in the developing world. We have always assumed that further and more detailed analysis would refine, and in some cases alter, these first-order attempts to understand magnitudes of environmental degredation and health risk. Some colleagues in academia have expressed concern about the IPPS's reliance on acute toxicity measures to the exclusion of chronic toxicity measures, and its use of mass-only measures to identify environmental risk by chemical. For our part, we believe that IPPS should be viewed as a useful tool, rather than a final answer, for those involved in international risk assessment work.

The U.S. EPA has also been seeking to incorporate chemical risk assessment into its project work. The EPA maintains an Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) <http://www.epa.gov/ngispgm3/iris/index.html> database on human health effects that may result from exposure to various chemicals in the environment. IRIS was initially developed for EPA staff, in response to a growing demand for consistent information on chemical substances for use in risk assessments, decision-making and regulatory activities. The information in IRIS is intended for those without extensive training in toxicology, but with some knowledge of health sciences.

EPA's Sector Facility Indexing Project (SFIP) provides another approach to risk assessment. The SFIP couples emissions data from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with toxicity weighting factors. The result is an index which accounts for both emissions volume and risk in assessing toxic pollution. On April 29, 1997, a Subcommittee of the EPA's Science Advisory Board's Environmental Engineering Committee met to review the technical aspects of the SFIP. To learn more about this and other aspects of the EPA's current work on chemical risk, please visit them at <http://www.epa.gov/science1/pifs.htm>.

Kind of Data

Aggregate data [agg]

Scope

Notes

The following variables are provided:

the chemical name,
a standardized chemical identifier called the Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number (denoted in the tables as NCAS),
4-digit ISIC codes,
pollution intensities for air, land and water by employment (E), value of output (T) and value added (V), and
Threshold Limit Values (TLV's).

The units of measurement for employees are kilograms per 1,000 employees, and for value of output and value added, the units are kilograms per 1987 $US million.
The database used to determine pollution intensities is the same database used from the TRI to generate the Industrial Pollution Projection System (IPPS). All the pollution intensities represented are lower-bound. To learn how lower-bound pollution intensities were calculated, please refer to Section 3.2.4, "Alternative Estimates of Sectoral Pollution Intensity" of the The industrial pollution projection system http://go.worldbank.org/1UMX76DK20. (Please also note, Section 4, Construction of a Toxic Risk Pollution Intensity Index of this paper represents an unrelated risk weighting methodology.)

TLV's are measures of safe toxic exposure levels, as determined by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists http://www.acgih.org/ (ACGIH). They are time-weighted average concentrations in air that cannot be exceeded without adverse effects for workers in a normal 8-hour work day and a 40-hour work week. TLV's are updated annually by the ACGIH. This data uses 1996 values.

All TLV's units are in milligrams per cubic meter. In cases where no TLV measurement is provided for a chemical, it is because no guideline had been provided by the ACGIH. Also please note that not all toxics are released by plants in all sectors, so that for a particular toxic, the omission of a sector row implies zero output of the toxic from that sector.

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name
David Wheeler, Mala Hettige and Manjula Singh

Producers

Name	Affiliation
Economics of Industrial Pollution Control Research Team	World Bank

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
1996	1996

Data Collection Notes

PRDEI has provided pollution intensities with their corresponding toxic risks for 246 chemicals in the U.S. EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).

The database used to determine pollution intensities is the same database used from the TRI to generate the
Industrial Pollution Projection System (IPPS). All the pollution intensities represented are lower-bound. To learn how lower-bound pollution intensities were calculated, please refer to Section 3.2.4, "Alternative Estimates of Sectoral Pollution Intensity" of the IPPS paper at http://www.NIPR.org/work_paper/1431/. Please also note, Section 4, Construction of a Toxic Risk Pollution Intensity Index represents an unrelated risk weighting methodology.

Data Access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:

the Identification of the Primary Investigator
the title of the survey (including acronym and year of implementation)
the survey reference number
the source and date of download

Example:

David Wheeler, Mala Hettige, Manjula Singh. World Bank ToxInt Database 1996. Ref. WLD_1996_TID_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from http://microdata.worldbank.org on [date].

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Contacts

Name	Affiliation	Email	URL
Development Research Group	World Bank	research@worldbank.org	http://go.worldbank.org/B9W4QTDHR0

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_WLD_1996_TID_v02_M

Date of Metadata Production

2010-11-03

Metadata version

DDI Document version

DDI Document - Version 02 - (04/21/21)
This version is identical to DDI_WLD_1996_TID_v01_M but country field has been updated to capture all the countries covered by survey.