datatypes

Table contents of Categories

id	name	description
1	Flow	Objects flowing between processes
2	Stock	Objects residing as stocks in processes
3	Material/Product property	Intensive object properties
4	Process coefficient, process parameter, intensive quantity	Intensive process properties
5	Extensive process property	Extensive process properties such as capacity
6	General ratio	Ratios between stocks and flows
7	Correspondence	Correspondence between two classifications
8	Non-numerical	Non-numeric data such as boolean values or flags

Table contents of Types

id	name	description	reference_data_category	symbol
1	Flow	flows of all kind	1	F
2	Stock	stocks of all kind	2	S
3	In-use stock	in-use stocks only	2	IUS
4	Population	population figures only	2	P
5	Lifetime	typically in use phase, or residence time in landfill etc.	3	LT
6	Material composition	material composition of products, alloys, waste/scrap, etc.	3	MC
7	Share	share (in %) of something	3	SHA
8	Price	price data	3	PR
9	Yield coefficient	material or energy yield of processes	4	PY
10	Process extension	Extension per output	4	PE
11	Process capacity	capacity of processes	5	CAP
12	Intensity of use of products	service (physical or immaterial) extracted from products	3	IUP
13	Specific energy consumption of products	energy per unit of use of products, e.g., MJ/km of vehicle driven	3	EI
14	Process costs	Costs per capacity	4	PC
15	Per capita stock	stock per person, e.g., cars per capita	6	PCS
16	Per capita flows	flows per person, e.g., GDP per capita	6	PCF
17	Material substitution coefficient	Amount of material 1 substituted by amount of material 2.	6	MSC
18	Process inventory	flows entering and leaving process, for LCI datasets	1	PI
19	Unit process inventory	flows entering and leaving process, normalized, for LCI datasets	4	UPI
20	Births_deaths	flows of people being born and dying	1	BD
21	Misc_intensive	miscellaneous intensive properties, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	6	MIP
22	Activity parameters	parameters, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	4	PAR
23	Transfer coefficients	transfer coefficients, e.g., those used in ecoinvent	6	TC
24	Criticality	criticality indicators	6	CR
25	Impact indicators	impact indicators, e.g., from LC impact assessment	6	IMI
26	Flow_prices	price information for flows (not products: 3_PR)	6	FPR
27	correspondence_table	Correspondence between two classifications	7	CT
28	Characterisation factor	Environmental or social midpoint or endpoint indicator per unit of substance listed in life cycle inventory	3	CF
29	Stock change	change in stock (net addition, withdrawal, disposal, …)	2	DS
30	Urban metabolism indicators	various indicators of urban metabolism, extensive, intensive.	6	URB
31	Process parameters	general parameters that describe processes, extensive	5	PP
32	Lorenz curve, normalized	normalized Lorenz curve (values from 0-1) of the cumulative ranked distribution of an indicator across a population	3	LC
34	Lorenz curve, non-normalized, flow	non-normalized Lorenz curve of the cumulative ranked distribution of a flow across a population	1	LCF
35	Lorenz curve, non-normalized, stock	non-normalized Lorenz curve of the cumulative ranked distribution of a stock across a population	2	LCS
37	general ratio of flows linked to a process	general ratio of flows linked to a process - determined by the same process they are all connected to	4	SHR
38	Boolean data type (flag)	Boolean data type (flag) to indicate whether a certain property is true for a given set of aspects or not	8	FLG
40	Product parameters	parameters that describe products: energy efficiency, battery capacity, number of components per product, etc	3	PUP

Table contents of Layers

id	name	description
1	Mass
2	Mass ratio
3	Monetary
4	Value per mass
5	Unit
6	Population
7	Lifetime
8	Power generation capacity
9	Energy per mass of output
10	Product per capita
11	Service per unit
12	Mass per area
13	Mass per volume
14	Service
15	Mass per unit
16	Parameters of pdf of product discard
17	Misc. physical units
18	Misc. units
19	Dry mass	Dry mass only
20	Wet mass	Wet mass (water content included)
21	Lower heating value	Net Calorific Value (NCV)
22	Higher heating value	Gross Calorific Value (GCV)
23	monetary (basic prices)	monetary value as basic price
24	monetary (purchaser prices)	monetary value as purchaser price
25	monetary (constant prices)	monetary value as constant price
26	Correspondence	Correspondence between two classifications
27	Area	area measure of stocks or flows of products like buildings
28	Misc_share	share of a quantity in another total quantity, miscellaneous units
29	Energy	Energy layer
30	Radioactivity	activity of a quantity of radioactive material
31	Constructed floor area	Total constructed floor area of buildings
32	Gross floor area	Gross floor area of buildings
33	Gross internal area	Gross internal area of buildings
34	Net internal area	Net internal area of buildings
35	Heated area	Heated area of buildings
36	Cooled area	Cooled area of buildings
37	TRL	technology readiness level
38	Volume	volume of a flow, e.g., for water
39	Production capacity	production capacity of plants, in e.g., Mt/yr
40	primary energy	primary energy, as extracted from nature
41	secondary energy	secondary energy, after conversion from primary energy
42	final energy	final energy, at the point of final energy conversion for use
43	useful energy	useful energy, energy delivered for/as service
44	General ratio	General ratio of two quantities
45	Energy per product operation	Energy per unit of operation of product, like MJ/km driven
46	material volume per area	used to indicate material composition of buildings, where the values are given as m³ per building area
47	Energy per unit of output	specific energy requirement of a process per unit of output, e.g., in kWh/item
48	Production volume	Production volume (annual) of a company or process, e.g., in Mt/yr or items/yr
49	Mass per length	Mass per length of product or infrastructure
50	Ratio of monetary values	E.g., two monetary flows divided by each other to determine market shares etc.
51	Mass per capacity	Mass of material per installed capacity of equipment, e.g., per GW of electricity generation capacity
52	Energy storage capacity	Capacity of a product or process to store energy

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