Department of Commerce federal obligations in Oregon

A thin Commerce file on an Oregon tag

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, Oregon as place-of-performance: 475 records summing to $1,982,555,744.72. A Department of Commerce award coded outside OR is out. An award in Oregon from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington, California, Nevada, and Idaho. A Vancouver, Washington-coded award is WA even if a Portland office later invoices it. Census, NOAA, NIST, EDA, and other Commerce bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 013.

Four hundred seventy-five awards against $1,982,555,744.72 is a thin, high-mean file. A handful of vehicles can dominate the dollar total. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 475 as 475 unique port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities. The overlay Department of Commerce in Oregon is the both-keys table. Oregon federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without an OR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Portland, Salem, and Eugene are unpublished. Assigning $1,982,555,744.72 to a named port is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Oregon did not “cause” $1,982,555,744.72 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × OR only.

Not a Portland-port or NOAA station ledger

$1,982,555,744.72 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 an OR place-of-performance tag. Census, NOAA, NIST, EDA, and other Commerce bureaus are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 013.

Do not treat 475 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 Oregon federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,982,555,744.72 and 475, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, California, and Idaho Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

Oregon statewide, not a Portland-metro map

Place of performance OR is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington, California, Nevada, and Idaho. A Vancouver, Washington-coded award is WA even if a Portland office later invoices it. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Portland, Salem, Eugene, and the rest of the counties share one OR stamp.

Portland, Salem, and Eugene are unpublished. Assigning $1,982,555,744.72 to a named port is a new extract. This packet does not split $1,982,555,744.72 by city, county, or named facility. 475 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. $1,982,555,744.72 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Oregon confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Oregon’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 475-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 $1,982,555,744.72.

Citing Commerce in Oregon

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,982,555,744.72 on 475 awards coded to Oregon. 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 Oregon if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Oregon federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to OR. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the OR filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,982,555,744.72. A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, Oregon, $1,982,555,744.72, and 475. The compact headline $1.98 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $4.17 million is $1,982,555,744.72 divided by 475. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in Oregon?

USAspending.gov records $1,982,555,744.72 across 475 awards with awarding agency 013 and an Oregon 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 Oregon is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,982,555,744.72.

Is $1,982,555,744.72 a measure of port TEUs, unique firms, or named Census/NOAA facilities?

No. The packet publishes $1,982,555,744.72 and 475 awards for agency 013 inside OR 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 475 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × OR. Combined with $1,982,555,744.72, the average is about $4.17 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 475 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–Oregon table?

Department of Commerce in Oregon is the overlay. Oregon 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 $1,982,555,744.72. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.