Department of Health and Human Services and Nebraska as a join

A thin HHS file on Nebraska

The pair is 075 × NE. $31,592,609,589.54 is the obligation sum. 1,861 is the award count. Fewer than two thousand records under $31.59 billion produces a mean near $16.98 million. A small number of large instruments can dominate. Ranking Nebraska against Iowa or Kansas would require other packets.

The join does not split Medicaid, research, or other labels. Those names are not in this aggregate.

$31,592,609,589.54 can look inevitable once it is printed in a headline. It is not. It is the sum of records that happen to carry both tags, 1,861 of them in this harvest. A different coding of place of performance would change the sum. So would a different awarding-agency code.

Agency 075 without Nebraska

The Department of Health and Human Services hub drops the NE filter and will not equal $31,592,609,589.54. The Nebraska hub drops 075. Overlay /states/ne/agencies/075/ is the both-keys table for 1,861 awards.

If a citation of $31,592,609,589.54 does not mention both the awarding agency and the place-of-performance state, it is not citing this join. If a citation of 1,861 does not mention both keys, it is not this file’s count.

Nebraska is not the Plains

Place of performance NE excludes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado. HHS awards coded to those states are outside $31,592,609,589.54. Place of performance is not an enrollment roster.

The Nebraska federal spending hub shows 075 next to other awarding agencies that also use NE. Adjacency is not a joint program.

Do not enlarge $31,592,609,589.54 into a regional estimate by adding neighbors from memory. Each neighbor is another filter, if it exists at all as a tie. This page has one geography code. That is the edge of the claim.

What 1,861 records omit

They omit outlays, years, and unique recipients. The published $31,592,609,589.54 is a commitment aggregate. Award count is not clinics.

De-obligation can change a record. The harvested total is what this page cites.

Limits

The join does not measure health outcomes. It does not claim donations funded awards. See Department of Health and Human Services in Nebraska, Nebraska federal spending, Department of Health and Human Services, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Nebraska’s HHS pair is sparse: 1,861 awards under $31,592,609,589.54, about $16.98 million per record.

Read Department of Health and Human Services in Nebraska for the both-keys table, Nebraska federal spending for the geography mix, Department of Health and Human Services for the agency without this state, and All spending ties for other pairs. $31,592,609,589.54 is not the agency nationwide and not the state from every agency. 1,861 is the row count inside the filter.

Place of performance does not mean every dollar was disbursed to residents of that state. Obligations do not mean outlays. Those distinctions are why $31,592,609,589.54 is described as a commitment aggregate.

Do not scale averages. Do not import FEC receipts. Do not treat this snapshot as live if the overlay has moved. The join remains $31,592,609,589.54 on 1,861 awards.

Snapshot language matters. $31,592,609,589.54 and 1,861 are the harvest used to write this file. USAspending aggregates can be rebuilt. If a later overlay disagrees, the live table is the operational source and this prose is historical relative to that packet. That is not a reason to ignore the join; it is a reason not to freeze $31,592,609,589.54 as a permanent law of the state. The keys — awarding agency and place-of-performance state — remain the definition of the page even if the dollars move.

Nothing here is a recommendation to seek an award, to move a facility, or to vote a particular way. Public records can be read without being turned into advice. $31,592,609,589.54 on 1,861 awards is a description of a USAspending intersection. Outlays are unpublished. Years are unpublished. Unique vendors are unpublished. The honest remainder is still large enough to be useful: an agency, a state tag, an obligation sum, a record count, and four links that keep those facts in their lanes.

Questions

How much has HHS obligated in Nebraska?

USAspending records $31,592,609,589.54 in obligations for agency 075 with Nebraska place of performance, on 1,861 awards. That is an obligation join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) and place-of-performance Nebraska.

Why is the average about $16.98 million?

Because $31,592,609,589.54 is divided by only 1,861 awards. A thin file raises the mean. The mean is not a typical grant. That ratio uses only $31,592,609,589.54 and 1,861 from the packet. A mean hides mix: a few large instruments can sit beside many smaller ones.

Does this include Iowa or Kansas?

No. Place of performance is Nebraska only. Other states are outside $31,592,609,589.54 and outside the 1,861 awards. Only place-of-performance Nebraska plus awarding agency 075 (Department of Health and Human Services) enter $31,592,609,589.54. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Are these outlays?

No. The aggregate is obligations. The 1,861 figure is an award-record count. USAspending’s source note for this aggregate is that obligations are not outlays. Place of performance Nebraska is a geography tag, not a roster of residents, vendors, or named facilities.