Department of Commerce federal obligations in District of Columbia

Commerce awards tagged to the District

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, District of Columbia as place-of-performance: 3,165 records summing to $3,677,296,176.16. A Department of Commerce award coded outside DC is out. An award in District of Columbia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Silver Spring or Arlington-coded Commerce award is MD or VA, not this cell.

Three thousand one hundred sixty-five awards against $3,677,296,176.16 is a mid-count District file: thicker than Texas Commerce, still a record count rather than a staff roster. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,165 as 3,165 unique unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the both-keys table. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without a DC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Place-of-performance DC often follows a payee or HQ convention. That is not proof every dollar was spent on District streets. Correlation is not causation: District of Columbia did not cause $3,677,296,176.16 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × DC only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

Not a Census Bureau headcount

$3,677,296,176.16 does not measure unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and a DC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,165 awards as a census of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If District of Columbia federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $3,677,296,176.16 and 3,165, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland and Virginia Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

District of Columbia, not a Beltway rollup

Place of performance DC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. District of Columbia (DC) excludes Maryland and Virginia. A Silver Spring or Arlington-coded Commerce award is MD or VA, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Place-of-performance DC often follows a payee or HQ convention. That is not proof every dollar was spent on District streets. This packet does not split $3,677,296,176.16 by city, county, or named facility. 3,165 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Headquarters-heavy coding still means obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,677,296,176.16 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in District of Columbia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,165-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 $3,677,296,176.16. The compact headline $3.68 billion is that same dollar total rounded, not a second extract.

Citing Commerce in the District

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $3,677,296,176.16 on 3,165 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus.

Prefer Department of Commerce in District of Columbia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to DC. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the DC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,677,296,176.16. The implied mean near $1.16 million is $3,677,296,176.16 divided by 3,165. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov records $3,677,296,176.16 across 3,165 awards with awarding agency 013 and a District of Columbia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,677,296,176.16.

Is $3,677,296,176.16 a measure of unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus?

No. The packet publishes $3,677,296,176.16 and 3,165 awards for agency 013 inside DC 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 3,165 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × DC. Combined with $3,677,296,176.16, the average is about $1.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,165 is not unique unique Commerce employees, census respondents, or named statistical bureaus. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–District of Columbia table?

Department of Commerce in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia 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 $3,677,296,176.16. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.