Department of Commerce federal obligations in Georgia

A thin Commerce file on a Georgia tag

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Georgia as place-of-performance: 213 records summing to $2,221,491,051.93. A Department of Commerce award coded outside GA is out. An award in Georgia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Georgia (GA) excludes Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. A Jacksonville-coded award is FL, not this cell. Census, NOAA, NIST, EDA, and other Commerce bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 013.

Two hundred thirteen awards against $2,221,491,051.93 is a thin, high-mean file. Fiscal or assistance vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 213 as 213 unique port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. The overlay Department of Commerce in Georgia is the both-keys table. Georgia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without a GA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Savannah, Brunswick, and Atlanta are unpublished. Assigning $2,221,491,051.93 to a named port is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Georgia did not “cause” $2,221,491,051.93 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × GA only.

Not a Savannah-port or NOAA station ledger

$2,221,491,051.93 does not measure port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and a GA place-of-performance tag. Census, NOAA, NIST, EDA, and other Commerce bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 013.

Do not treat 213 awards as a census of port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Georgia federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $2,221,491,051.93 and 213, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Georgia statewide, not an Atlanta-metro map

Place of performance GA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Georgia (GA) excludes Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. A Jacksonville-coded award is FL, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta, and the rest of the counties share one GA stamp.

Savannah, Brunswick, and Atlanta are unpublished. Assigning $2,221,491,051.93 to a named port is a new extract. This packet does not split $2,221,491,051.93 by city, county, or named facility. 213 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,221,491,051.93 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Georgia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Georgia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 213-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 $2,221,491,051.93.

Citing Commerce in Georgia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $2,221,491,051.93 on 213 awards coded to Georgia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Georgia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Georgia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to GA. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the GA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,221,491,051.93. A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Georgia, $2,221,491,051.93, and 213. The compact headline $2.22 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $10.43 million is $2,221,491,051.93 divided by 213. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Georgia?

USAspending.gov records $2,221,491,051.93 across 213 awards with awarding agency 013 and a Georgia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. Department of Commerce in Georgia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,221,491,051.93.

Is $2,221,491,051.93 a measure of port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities?

No. The packet publishes $2,221,491,051.93 and 213 awards for agency 013 inside GA 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 213 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × GA. Combined with $2,221,491,051.93, the average is about $10.43 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 213 is not unique port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–Georgia table?

Department of Commerce in Georgia is the overlay. Georgia 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 $2,221,491,051.93. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.