Department of Commerce federal obligations in Arizona

Commerce awards tagged to Arizona

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Arizona as place-of-performance: 170 records summing to $1,415,868,445.12. A Department of Commerce award coded outside AZ is out. An award in Arizona from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Arizona (AZ) excludes California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Mexico. A San Diego-coded award is California.

One hundred seventy records against $1,415,868,445.12 is a thin Commerce file: few rows, large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 170 as 170 unique unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. The overlay Department of Commerce in Arizona is the both-keys table. Arizona federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an AZ filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Phoenix and Tucson are unpublished. Named Commerce bureaus inside 013 are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Arizona did not cause $1,415,868,445.12 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × AZ only.

Not export dollars or a bureau headcount

$1,415,868,445.12 does not measure unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an AZ place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 170 awards as a census of unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Arizona federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,415,868,445.12 and 170, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. California, Nevada, and New Mexico Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Arizona statewide, not a Phoenix-only map

Place of performance AZ is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Arizona (AZ) excludes California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Mexico. A San Diego-coded award is California. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Phoenix and Tucson are unpublished. Named Commerce bureaus inside 013 are unpublished. This packet does not split $1,415,868,445.12 by city, county, or named facility. 170 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Thin award files still record obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,415,868,445.12 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Arizona confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Arizona’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 170-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $1,415,868,445.12.

Citing Commerce in Arizona

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,415,868,445.12 on 170 awards coded to Arizona. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Arizona if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Arizona federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AZ. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the AZ filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,415,868,445.12.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Arizona, $1,415,868,445.12, and 170. The compact headline $1.42 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $8.33 million is $1,415,868,445.12 divided by 170. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

One hundred seventy records against $1,415,868,445.12 is a thin Commerce file: few rows, large dollars. On this join the implied mean near $8.33 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,415,868,445.12 can be dominated by a few rows even when 170 is large, or by those same few rows when 170 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Commerce (013) and Arizona (AZ). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Phoenix and Tucson are unpublished. Named Commerce bureaus inside 013 are unpublished.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Arizona?

USAspending.gov records $1,415,868,445.12 across 170 awards with awarding agency 013 and an Arizona tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. Department of Commerce in Arizona is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,415,868,445.12.

Is $1,415,868,445.12 a measure of unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus?

No. The packet publishes $1,415,868,445.12 and 170 awards for agency 013 inside AZ 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 170 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × AZ. Combined with $1,415,868,445.12, the average is about $8.33 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 170 is not unique unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Commerce in Arizona is the overlay. Arizona 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 $1,415,868,445.12. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.