General Services Administration in North Carolina

A very thin Treasury file on North Carolina

Department of the Treasury as awarding agency, North Carolina as place-of-performance: 345 records summing to $5,668,919,255.84. A Department of the Treasury award coded outside NC is out. An award in North Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. North Carolina (NC) excludes South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. A Richmond-coded award is Virginia.

Three hundred forty-five awards is a very thin Treasury 020 file. The implied mean is correspondingly high. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 345 as 345 unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses. The overlay Department of the Treasury in North Carolina is the both-keys table. North Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of the Treasury is the agency book without an NC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Charlotte, Raleigh, and the Research Triangle are unpublished. One large restatement can move 345 rows quickly. Correlation is not causation: North Carolina did not “cause” $5,668,919,255.84 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 020 × NC only.

345 rows are not 345 IRS offices

$5,668,919,255.84 does not measure individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 020 and an NC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 345 awards as a census of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If North Carolina federal spending or Department of the Treasury matched $5,668,919,255.84 and 345, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia Treasury joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of the Treasury obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $5,668,919,255.84 across 345 awards with awarding agency 020 and a North Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses. Department of the Treasury in North Carolina is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,668,919,255.84.

Is $5,668,919,255.84 a measure of individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses?

No. The packet publishes $5,668,919,255.84 and 345 awards for agency 020 inside NC 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 345 awards?

That is the award-record count for 020 × NC. Combined with $5,668,919,255.84, the average is about $16.43 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 345 is not unique individual tax refunds, taxpayer counts, or named campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of the Treasury in North Carolina is the overlay. North Carolina 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 $5,668,919,255.84. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.