General Services Administration in Alabama

A thin Treasury file on an Alabama tag

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 230 records summing to $2,994,775,702.96. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) is the place-of-performance key. Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Florida Treasury rows are other cells.

Two hundred thirty awards against a multi-billion dollar stock is a thin, high-mean Treasury file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 230 as 230 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Birmingham is not published as a metro cut. Assigning the cell to a named campus is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $2,994,775,702.96 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × AL only.

Refunds are a different series

$2,994,775,702.96 does not measure individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 020 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 230 awards as a census of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $2,994,775,702.96 and 230, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of the Treasury obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $2,994,775,702.96 across 230 awards with awarding agency 020 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Department of the Treasury in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,994,775,702.96.

Is $2,994,775,702.96 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $2,994,775,702.96 and 230 awards for agency 020 inside AL 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 Treasury file have 230 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × AL. Combined with $2,994,775,702.96, the average is about $13.02 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 230 is not unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of the Treasury in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama federal spending and Department of the Treasury are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,994,775,702.96. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.