Department of Commerce in Louisiana

A thin Commerce file on Louisiana

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Louisiana as place-of-performance: 214 records summing to $2,266,571,819.34. A Department of Commerce award coded outside LA is out. An award in Louisiana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas. A Houston-coded Commerce award is Texas, not this cell.

Two hundred fourteen awards against $2,266,571,819.34 is a thin, high-mean Commerce file, thinner than Texas Commerce’s 620 rows and still not a port roster. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 214 as 214 unique unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations. Department of Commerce in Louisiana is the both-keys table. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an LA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

New Orleans and the river parishes are unpublished. Do not assign $2,266,571,819.34 to a named port or fisheries lab. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not cause $2,266,571,819.34 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × LA only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

Not NOAA, fisheries, or a Census roster

$2,266,571,819.34 does not measure unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an LA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 214 awards as a census of unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Louisiana federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $2,266,571,819.34 and 214, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Texas and Mississippi Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $2,266,571,819.34 across 214 awards with awarding agency 013 and a Louisiana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations. Department of Commerce in Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,266,571,819.34.

Is $2,266,571,819.34 a measure of unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations?

No. The packet publishes $2,266,571,819.34 and 214 awards for agency 013 inside LA 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 214 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × LA. Combined with $2,266,571,819.34, the average is about $10.59 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 214 is not unique unique firms, port throughput, or NOAA stations. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–Louisiana table?

Department of Commerce in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana 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 $2,266,571,819.34. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.