National Science Foundation in Pennsylvania

NSF awards tagged to Pennsylvania

National Science Foundation as awarding agency, Pennsylvania as place-of-performance: 1,730 records summing to $1,255,740,866.19. A National Science Foundation award coded outside PA is out. An award in Pennsylvania from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Pennsylvania (PA) excludes New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. A New Jersey-coded award is NJ even if the lab sits across the river.

One thousand seven hundred thirty awards against $1,255,740,866.19 is a mid-to-thick NSF file. Modifications and continuations can add rows without each row being a new PI. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,730 as 1,730 unique unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. The overlay National Science Foundation in Pennsylvania is the both-keys table. Pennsylvania federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Science Foundation is the agency book without a PA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named universities are unpublished. Do not treat 1,730 as unique Pennsylvania researchers. Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania did not cause $1,255,740,866.19 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 049 × PA only.

Not unique principal investigators or named programs

$1,255,740,866.19 does not measure unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 049 and a PA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,730 awards as a census of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Pennsylvania federal spending or National Science Foundation matched $1,255,740,866.19 and 1,730, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New York, New Jersey, and Ohio NSF joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the National Science Foundation obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending.gov records $1,255,740,866.19 across 1,730 awards with awarding agency 049 and a Pennsylvania tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. National Science Foundation in Pennsylvania is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,255,740,866.19.

Is $1,255,740,866.19 a measure of unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses?

No. The packet publishes $1,255,740,866.19 and 1,730 awards for agency 049 inside PA 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 NSF file have 1,730 awards?

That is the award-record count for 049 × PA. Combined with $1,255,740,866.19, the average is about $725,862. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,730 is not unique unique principal investigators, named programs, or unique campuses. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

National Science Foundation in Pennsylvania is the overlay. Pennsylvania federal spending and National Science Foundation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,255,740,866.19. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.