General Services Administration in Michigan

A thin Treasury file on a Michigan tag

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, Michigan as place-of-performance: 288 records summing to $1,381,097,259.98. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside MI is out. An award in Michigan from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Michigan (MI) excludes Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Canada. A Toledo-coded award is Ohio even if the corridor crosses the border.

Two hundred eighty-eight records against $1,381,097,259.98 is a thin, high-mean Treasury file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 288 as 288 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in Michigan is the both-keys table. Michigan federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an MI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Agency code 020 is the awarding key. Detroit is unpublished as a metro share. Correlation is not causation: Michigan did not cause $1,381,097,259.98 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × MI only.

Refunds are a different series

$1,381,097,259.98 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 MI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 288 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 Michigan federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $1,381,097,259.98 and 288, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $1,381,097,259.98 across 288 awards with awarding agency 020 and a Michigan 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 Michigan is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,381,097,259.98.

Is $1,381,097,259.98 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named IRS campuses?

No. The packet publishes $1,381,097,259.98 and 288 awards for agency 020 inside MI 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 288 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × MI. Combined with $1,381,097,259.98, the average is about $4.80 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 288 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 Michigan is the overlay. Michigan 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 $1,381,097,259.98. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.