Department of Health and Human Services in Alabama

HHS in Alabama beside SSA in Alabama

Two Alabama relationship pages appear in this inventory. This one is 075 × AL. $43,815,788,696.64 is the HHS obligation sum. 3,012 is the HHS award count. Alabama also has other awarding-agency overlays; those are different filters. Do not add the two totals here; the packet does not publish a combined figure.

About $14.55 million per award follows from a thin row count. The mean is not a typical clinic grant. Award types are mixed.

A useful check on $43,815,788,696.64 is to ask what 3,012 records implies. A large sum on few rows concentrates. A large sum on many rows dilutes the mean. That check is still not a ranking of states. It is a reading of this file’s shape.

Agency 075 as a rollup code

Department of Health and Human Services is the label on 075. This page does not split operating divisions. The agency hub without Alabama will not equal $43,815,788,696.64. Overlay /states/al/agencies/075/ is the both-keys table for 3,012 awards.

Quoting $43,815,788,696.64 from the agency hub would be a different filter. Quoting 3,012 from the state hub would mix other awarding agencies. The overlay is the only table that keeps both keys. That is why this tie cites those two facts together.

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $43,815,788,696.64 in obligations for agency 075 with Alabama place of performance, on 3,012 awards. That is the HHS–Alabama join only. The pair is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) and place-of-performance Alabama. It is not Department of Health and Human Services nationwide and not Alabama from every awarding agency.

Is SSA in Alabama included?

No. Social Security Administration is a different awarding-agency overlay. This page is Department of Health and Human Services 075: $43,815,788,696.64 on 3,012 awards. Only place-of-performance Alabama plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $43,815,788,696.64. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Why is the average about $14.55 million?

Because $43,815,788,696.64 is divided by 3,012 awards. A thin file raises the mean. The mean is not a typical grant. That ratio uses only $43,815,788,696.64 and 3,012 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. The 3,012 figure is an award-record count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance Alabama is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.