Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Mississippi

VA awards tagged to Mississippi

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Mississippi as place-of-performance: 26,241 records summing to $6,197,922,632.04. A Department of Veterans Affairs 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 Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A New Orleans-coded award is Louisiana.

Twenty-six thousand two hundred forty-one awards is a thick VA action file. Counts are not a quality ranking of care. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 26,241 as 26,241 unique veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Mississippi is the both-keys table. Mississippi federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an MS filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Jackson and the Gulf Coast are unpublished geography. $6,197,922,632.04 stays on the MS tag. Correlation is not causation: Mississippi did not “cause” $6,197,922,632.04 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × MS only.

26,241 rows are not 26,241 veterans

$6,197,922,632.04 does not measure veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an MS place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 26,241 awards as a census of veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Mississippi federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $6,197,922,632.04 and 26,241, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana VA 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 Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A New Orleans-coded award is Louisiana. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Jackson and the Gulf Coast are unpublished geography. $6,197,922,632.04 stays on the MS tag. This packet does not split $6,197,922,632.04 by city, county, or named facility. 26,241 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations, not clinic disbursements

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $6,197,922,632.04 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 26,241-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 $6,197,922,632.04.

Citing the VA–Mississippi join

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $6,197,922,632.04 on 26,241 awards coded to Mississippi. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Mississippi if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Mississippi federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MS. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the MS filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $6,197,922,632.04.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Mississippi, $6,197,922,632.04, and 26,241. The compact headline $6.20 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $236,192 is $6,197,922,632.04 divided by 26,241. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending.gov records $6,197,922,632.04 across 26,241 awards with awarding agency 036 and a Mississippi tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Mississippi is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $6,197,922,632.04.

Is $6,197,922,632.04 a measure of veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $6,197,922,632.04 and 26,241 awards for agency 036 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 VA file have 26,241 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × MS. Combined with $6,197,922,632.04, the average is about $236,192. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 26,241 is not unique veteran headcount, bed days, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Mississippi is the overlay. Mississippi federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $6,197,922,632.04. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.