Department of Transportation federal obligations in Mississippi

DOT awards tagged to Mississippi

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Mississippi as place-of-performance: 1,248 records summing to $2,700,707,718.40. A Department of Transportation 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 even if a corridor crosses the line.

One thousand two hundred forty-eight awards is a moderate DOT book: not a handful of oversized rows, not a farm-program flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,248 as 1,248 unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. The overlay Department of Transportation in Mississippi is the both-keys table. Mississippi federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an MS filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Jackson, the Gulf Coast, and the Delta share one MS stamp. A mode split (highway versus aviation) is unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Mississippi did not “cause” $2,700,707,718.40 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × MS only.

Not lane-miles or a bridge census

$2,700,707,718.40 does not measure lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an MS place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,248 awards as a census of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Mississippi federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $2,700,707,718.40 and 1,248, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Mississippi, not a Gulf Coast rollup

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 even if a corridor crosses the line. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Jackson, the Gulf Coast, and the Delta share one MS stamp. A mode split (highway versus aviation) is unpublished. This packet does not split $2,700,707,718.40 by city, county, or named facility. 1,248 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Moderate book, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,700,707,718.40 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 1,248-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 $2,700,707,718.40.

Citing DOT in Mississippi

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $2,700,707,718.40 on 1,248 awards coded to Mississippi. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Mississippi if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Mississippi federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MS. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the MS filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,700,707,718.40.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Mississippi, $2,700,707,718.40, and 1,248. The compact headline $2.70 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.16 million is $2,700,707,718.40 divided by 1,248. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending.gov records $2,700,707,718.40 across 1,248 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Mississippi tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Department of Transportation in Mississippi is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,700,707,718.40.

Is $2,700,707,718.40 a measure of lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates?

No. The packet publishes $2,700,707,718.40 and 1,248 awards for agency 069 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 DOT file have 1,248 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × MS. Combined with $2,700,707,718.40, the average is about $2.16 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,248 is not unique lane-miles, unique contractors, or named Interstates. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Mississippi is the overlay. Mississippi federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,700,707,718.40. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.