Department of State in South Carolina

A thicker State file on South Carolina

Department of State as awarding agency, South Carolina as place-of-performance: 403 records summing to $360,580,937.52. A Department of State award coded outside SC is out. An award in South Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Carolina (SC) excludes North Carolina and Georgia. A Charlotte-coded award is North Carolina even if the contractor sits in the Upstate.

Four hundred three awards is the thickest Department of State cell in this slice. Volume can rise on modifications without each row being a new post. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 403 as 403 unique consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff. The overlay Department of State in South Carolina is the both-keys table. South Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of State is the agency book without an SC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Charleston Harbor and Columbia do not get published shares of $360,580,937.52. The join stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: South Carolina did not “cause” $360,580,937.52 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 019 × SC only.

Not a Charleston versus Columbia split

$360,580,937.52 does not measure consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 019 and an SC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 403 awards as a census of consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Carolina federal spending or Department of State matched $360,580,937.52 and 403, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. North Carolina and Georgia State joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of State obligated in South Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $360,580,937.52 across 403 awards with awarding agency 019 and a South Carolina tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff. Department of State in South Carolina is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $360,580,937.52.

Is $360,580,937.52 a measure of consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff?

No. The packet publishes $360,580,937.52 and 403 awards for agency 019 inside SC 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 State Dept file have 403 awards?

That is the award-record count for 019 × SC. Combined with $360,580,937.52, the average is about $894,742. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 403 is not unique consular appointments, port calls, or diplomatic staff. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of State in South Carolina is the overlay. South Carolina federal spending and Department of State are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $360,580,937.52. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.