The SOCA v4.0 database, a social impact add-on to ecoinvent v3.11, is now available. Ecoinvent already contains data to calculate environmental impacts and costs for life cycle costing (LCC), but it has lacked information on potential social impacts. SOCA fills this gap by integrating social data, enabling users to calculate social impacts per process or dataset in ecoinvent.
SOCA v4.0 is based on ecoinvent v3.11 and social information from PSILCA v4, mapped to ecoinvent processes. It supports complete life cycle sustainability assessments and is available for two system models of ecoinvent: cut-off and APOS.
For more information and to download the database, see the documentation and resources here: https://nexus.openlca.org/database/soca