Department of State in Alaska

A thin State file on an Alaska tag

Department of State as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 82 records summing to $494,479,840.21. A Department of State award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii State rows are other cells. The District of Columbia State join is a different geography entirely.

Eighty-two awards against $494,479,840.21 is a thin, high-mean file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 82 as 82 unique passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel. The overlay Department of State in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Anchorage versus Juneau consular folklore is not a packet split. Assigning the cell to a named post is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $494,479,840.21 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 019 × AK only.

Passports are a different series

$494,479,840.21 does not measure passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 019 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 82 awards as a census of passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of State matched $494,479,840.21 and 82, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington and District of Columbia State joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $494,479,840.21 across 82 awards with awarding agency 019 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel. Department of State in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $494,479,840.21.

Is $494,479,840.21 a measure of passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel?

No. The packet publishes $494,479,840.21 and 82 awards for agency 019 inside AK coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this State Dept file have 82 awards?

That is the award-record count for 019 × AK. Combined with $494,479,840.21, the average is about $6.03 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 82 is not unique passport issuances, consular posts, or diplomatic personnel. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of State in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending and Department of State are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $494,479,840.21. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.