Department of Commerce in District of Columbia

Commerce awards tagged to the District

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 3,165 records summing to $3,677,296,176.16. A Department of Commerce award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Silver Spring or Arlington-coded Commerce award is MD or VA, not this cell.

Three thousand one hundred sixty-five awards against $3,677,296,176.16 is a mid-count District file: thicker than Texas Commerce, still a record count rather than a staff roster. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,165 as 3,165 unique unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Place-of-performance DC often follows a payee or HQ convention. That is not proof every dollar was spent on District streets. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $3,677,296,176.16 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × DC only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

Not a Census Bureau headcount

$3,677,296,176.16 does not measure unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,165 awards as a census of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $3,677,296,176.16 and 3,165, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $3,677,296,176.16 across 3,165 awards with awarding agency 013 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,677,296,176.16.

Is $3,677,296,176.16 a measure of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus?

No. The packet publishes $3,677,296,176.16 and 3,165 awards for agency 013 inside DC 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 Commerce file have 3,165 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × DC. Combined with $3,677,296,176.16, the average is about $1.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,165 is not unique unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–District of Columbia table?

Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Commerce are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,677,296,176.16. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.