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Title: EPRI EMF exposure database: EMDEX occupational study data set. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:402371

This document describes the EMDEX Occupational Study (EOS) Data Set containing the measurement data collected during the EPRI-sponsored study, Electric and Magnetic Field Measurement Study for Utilities - The EMDEX Project (RP2966-01). The data were supplied to the EPRI EMF Exposure Database by the original researchers at T. Dan Bracken, Inc. Electric and magnetic field exposure data were collected by volunteer employees at 55 utility sites. Volunteers were placed in one of sixteen job classifications depending on their job title and work environment. They maintained a simple logbook while wearing an EMDEX meter, allowing the measurement data to be identified with one of eight work environments or one of three non-work environments. The fourteen data products in the EMDEX Occupational Study Data Set contain the electric and magnetic field personal exposure measurements collected during the study and summaries of those measurements along with associated descriptive information. The exposure measurement data products consist of time-series and summary files. The former are the binary and ASCII time-series files of individual field measurements that contain both electric and magnetic field data. These time-series files represent over 28,800,000 individual field measurements. Separate summary files for electric and magnetic field measurements represent six levels of aggregation of the data. The documentation contains a project synopsis, full descriptions of all data elements, and the format and size of each data product. The final report for the project and other references are cited as sources of detailed information about study design, protocols, and results.

Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Bracken (T. Dan), Inc., Portland, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
402371
Report Number(s):
EPRI-TR-107058; TRN: 96:006435
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Oct 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English