Department of Commerce federal obligations in Minnesota

A thin Commerce file on Minnesota

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Minnesota as place-of-performance: 139 records summing to $802,638,615.39. A Department of Commerce award coded outside MN is out. An award in Minnesota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A Superior-coded award is Wisconsin even if the harbor story sounds similar.

One hundred thirty-nine awards against $802,638,615.39 is a thin Commerce book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 139 as 139 unique exporters, Great Lakes landings, or NOAA landings. The overlay Department of Commerce in Minnesota is the both-keys table. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an MN filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Minneapolis, Duluth, and Rochester share one MN stamp. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share awarding-agency 013 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not cause $802,638,615.39 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × MN only.

Not an exporter or landing census

$802,638,615.39 does not measure exporters, Great Lakes landings, or NOAA landings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and an MN place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 139 awards as a census of exporters, Great Lakes landings, or NOAA landings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Minnesota federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $802,638,615.39 and 139, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $802,638,615.39 by 139 yields about $5,774,378.53 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Commerce line and not a published median.

Minnesota, not a Twin Ports Commerce rollup

Place of performance MN is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota. A Superior-coded award is Wisconsin even if the harbor story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Minneapolis, Duluth, and Rochester share one MN stamp. This packet does not split $802,638,615.39 by city, county, or named facility. 139 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

One hundred thirty-nine rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $802,638,615.39 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Minnesota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Minnesota's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 139-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 $802,638,615.39.

What this pair does not prove

A large Commerce total in Minnesota does not mean the agency caused Minnesota's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $802,638,615.39 labeled as agency 013 obligations with Minnesota place of performance. Neighbor Commerce cells among Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota are separate joins. This page does not rank Minnesota as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $802,638,615.39. Place-of-performance MN can differ from a vendor mailroom. A Superior-coded award is Wisconsin even if the harbor story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $802,638,615.39 and 139 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 013 crossed with Minnesota.

Citing Commerce in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $802,638,615.39 on 139 awards coded to Minnesota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as exporters, Great Lakes landings, or NOAA landings.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Minnesota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Minnesota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MN. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the MN filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $802,638,615.39.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Minnesota, $802,638,615.39, and 139. The implied mean near $5,774,378.53 is $802,638,615.39 divided by 139. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset; they do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records $802,638,615.39 across 139 awards with awarding agency 013 and a Minnesota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of exporters, Great Lakes landings, or NOAA landings. Department of Commerce in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $802,638,615.39.

Is $802,638,615.39 a measure of exporters?

No. The packet publishes $802,638,615.39 and 139 awards for agency 013 inside MN coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $5,774,378.53, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Minneapolis-only Commerce total?

No. $802,638,615.39 and 139 awards are statewide Minnesota place of performance. Minneapolis, Duluth, and Rochester share one MN stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Commerce–Minnesota table?

Department of Commerce in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota 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 $802,638,615.39. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.