The regulation of industry in United States
This is an R script for generating all the interactions between (NASCIS 3-digit) industries and the US regulatory agencies. The tables are based on the RegData 2.2 dataset.
Requirements
You need to download the metadata.csv and the industry_3digit.csv from RegData 2.2: https://quantgov.org/regdata-us/.
Citation:
Al-Ubaydli, Omar, and McLaughlin, Patrick A. 2015. "RegData: A Numerical Database on Industry-Specific Regulations for All United States Industries and Federal Regulations, 1997–2012." Regulation & Governance 11 (1): 109–23.
You can try to adapt the script with the newer datasets, as well as to the 4-digit industry codes (if you want a more detailed look at the regulatory overlaps).
What's included here
- the R script:
generate-tables.r - the NAICS industry codes:
NAICS2017.csv - the resulting tables created by this script:
tables-3digit-industry.zip. Inside the zip file:- an interactive table:
__table.html - a simple aggregation of all the tables:
__table_simple.html - all the tables as single html files
- an interactive table:
The NAICS 2017 codes were downloaded from https://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/downloadables/downloadables.html. Column names were then changed to 'id', 'industry' and 'description', and file was saved as csv.
Example:
Oil and Gas Extraction is regulated in the United States by the following agencies (cummulative restrictions from 1970 to 2014):
| agency | restrictions |
|---|---|
| Bureau of Export Administration, Department of Commerce | 1084 |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior | 33392 |
| Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior | 14784 |
| Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of the Interior | 11181 |
| Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security | 2327 |
| Coast Guard, Department of Transportation | 0 |
| Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army | 0 |
| EPA - General | 34556 |
| Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy | 8980 |
| Geological Survey, Department of the Interior | 5182 |
| Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury | 3529 |
| Mine Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor | 0 |
| Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior | 89496 |
| Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation | 5617 |
| Office of the Secretary, Department of the Treasury | 2 |
| Unattributed | 109 |
| United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior | 2424 |
| Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission | 198 |
| Other | 6936 |