Department of Commerce federal obligations in West Virginia

A very thin Commerce file on West Virginia

Department of Commerce as awarding agency, West Virginia as place-of-performance: 79 records summing to $1,572,618,105.10. A Department of Commerce award coded outside WV is out. An award in West Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. West Virginia (WV) excludes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania.

Seventy-nine awards against $1,572,618,105.10 is a very thin Commerce file. A few vehicles can mint most of the dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 79 as 79 unique exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees. The overlay Department of Commerce in West Virginia is the both-keys table. West Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Commerce is the agency book without a WV filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Do not treat 79 as a county-by-county broadband list. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share 013 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: West Virginia did not cause $1,572,618,105.10 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 013 × WV only.

Seventy-nine rows are not an exporter census

$1,572,618,105.10 does not measure exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 013 and a WV place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 79 awards as a census of exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If West Virginia federal spending or Department of Commerce matched $1,572,618,105.10 and 79, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia Commerce joins are other pairs, not addends.

West Virginia, not an Appalachian Commerce rollup

Place of performance WV is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. West Virginia (WV) excludes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Do not treat 79 as a county-by-county broadband list. NIST, NOAA, Census, and EDA can share 013 without a published bureau pie. This packet does not split $1,572,618,105.10 by city, county, or named facility. 79 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Huge implied mean, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,572,618,105.10 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in West Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

West Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 79-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 $1,572,618,105.10.

Citing Commerce in West Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Commerce (agency 013) obligated $1,572,618,105.10 on 79 awards coded to West Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees.

Prefer Department of Commerce in West Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. West Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WV. Department of Commerce is the 013 parent without the WV filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,572,618,105.10.

A usable footnote names Department of Commerce, West Virginia, $1,572,618,105.10, and 79. The compact headline $1.57 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $19.91 million is $1,572,618,105.10 divided by 79. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Commerce obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $1,572,618,105.10 across 79 awards with awarding agency 013 and a West Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees. Department of Commerce in West Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,572,618,105.10.

Is $1,572,618,105.10 a measure of exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees?

No. The packet publishes $1,572,618,105.10 and 79 awards for agency 013 inside WV 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 79 awards?

That is the award-record count for 013 × WV. Combined with $1,572,618,105.10, the average is about $19.91 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 79 is not unique exporters, NOAA stations, or unique EDA grantees. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Commerce–West Virginia table?

Department of Commerce in West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia 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 $1,572,618,105.10. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is WV.