Department of Homeland Security federal obligations in Mississippi

A thin DHS file on Mississippi

Department of Homeland Security as awarding agency, Mississippi as place-of-performance: 399 records summing to $5,955,730,325.95. A Department of Homeland Security award coded outside MS is out. An award in Mississippi from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Mississippi (MS) excludes Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. A New Orleans-coded award is Louisiana.

Three hundred ninety-nine awards is a thin DHS file. The implied mean is high because the denominator is small, not because a disaster ranking sits in the packet. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 399 as 399 unique named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score. The overlay Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi is the both-keys table. Mississippi federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Homeland Security is the agency book without an MS filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Historical disaster names are not packet fields. $5,955,730,325.95 is agency 070 inside MS coding only. Correlation is not causation: Mississippi did not “cause” $5,955,730,325.95 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 070 × MS only.

399 rows are not 399 disasters

$5,955,730,325.95 does not measure named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 070 and an MS place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 399 awards as a census of named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Mississippi federal spending or Department of Homeland Security matched $5,955,730,325.95 and 399, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia DHS joins are other pairs, not addends.

Mississippi, not a Katrina-era memoir

Place of performance MS is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Mississippi (MS) excludes Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas. A New Orleans-coded award is Louisiana. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Historical disaster names are not packet fields. $5,955,730,325.95 is agency 070 inside MS coding only. This packet does not split $5,955,730,325.95 by city, county, or named facility. 399 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

High-mean vehicles versus cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,955,730,325.95 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Mississippi confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Mississippi’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 399-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 $5,955,730,325.95.

Citing DHS in Mississippi

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Homeland Security (agency 070) obligated $5,955,730,325.95 on 399 awards coded to Mississippi. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score.

Prefer Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Mississippi federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MS. Department of Homeland Security is the 070 parent without the MS filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,955,730,325.95.

A usable footnote names Department of Homeland Security, Mississippi, $5,955,730,325.95, and 399. The compact headline $5.96 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $14.93 million is $5,955,730,325.95 divided by 399. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Homeland Security obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending.gov records $5,955,730,325.95 across 399 awards with awarding agency 070 and a Mississippi tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score. Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,955,730,325.95.

Is $5,955,730,325.95 a measure of named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score?

No. The packet publishes $5,955,730,325.95 and 399 awards for agency 070 inside MS 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 DHS file have 399 awards?

That is the award-record count for 070 × MS. Combined with $5,955,730,325.95, the average is about $14.93 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 399 is not unique named storms, declaration counts, or a coastal-risk score. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Homeland Security in Mississippi is the overlay. Mississippi federal spending and Department of Homeland Security are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $5,955,730,325.95. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.