Department of Commerce federal obligations in Oklahoma

Commerce awards tagged to Oklahoma

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Oklahoma as place-of-performance: 215 records summing to $1,493,583,698.31. A Department of Commerce award coded outside OK is out. An award in Oklahoma from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Oklahoma (OK) excludes Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado, and New Mexico. A Dallas-coded award is Texas.

Two hundred fifteen records against $1,493,583,698.31 is a thin Commerce file: few rows, large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 215 as 215 unique unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. The overlay Department of Commerce in Oklahoma is the both-keys table. Oklahoma federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an OK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Oklahoma City and Tulsa are unpublished. Do not split 215 awards into two metro lists. Correlation is not causation: Oklahoma did not cause $1,493,583,698.31 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × OK only.

Census and NOAA folklore are unpublished

$1,493,583,698.31 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 OK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 215 awards as a census of unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Oklahoma federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,493,583,698.31 and 215, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Oklahoma statewide, not a two-city split

Place of performance OK is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Oklahoma (OK) excludes Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado, and New Mexico. A Dallas-coded award is Texas. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Oklahoma City and Tulsa are unpublished. Do not split 215 awards into two metro lists. This packet does not split $1,493,583,698.31 by city, county, or named facility. 215 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. $1,493,583,698.31 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Oklahoma confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Oklahoma’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 215-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 $1,493,583,698.31.

Citing Commerce in Oklahoma

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,493,583,698.31 on 215 awards coded to Oklahoma. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus.

Prefer Department of Commerce in Oklahoma if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Oklahoma federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to OK. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the OK filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,493,583,698.31.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Oklahoma, $1,493,583,698.31, and 215. The compact headline $1.49 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $6.95 million is $1,493,583,698.31 divided by 215. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Two hundred fifteen records against $1,493,583,698.31 is a thin Commerce file: few rows, large dollars. On this join the implied mean near $6.95 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,493,583,698.31 can be dominated by a few rows even when 215 is large, or by those same few rows when 215 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 Oklahoma (OK). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Oklahoma City and Tulsa are unpublished. Do not split 215 awards into two metro lists.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Oklahoma?

USAspending.gov records $1,493,583,698.31 across 215 awards with awarding agency 013 and an Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,493,583,698.31.

Is $1,493,583,698.31 a measure of unique firms, export dollars, or named bureaus?

No. The packet publishes $1,493,583,698.31 and 215 awards for agency 013 inside OK 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 215 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × OK. Combined with $1,493,583,698.31, the average is about $6.95 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 215 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 Oklahoma is the overlay. Oklahoma 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 $1,493,583,698.31. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.