Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Oregon

VA awards tagged to Oregon

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Oregon as place-of-performance: 14,323 records summing to $6,843,248,835.42. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside OR is out. An award in Oregon from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington and California even when a veteran travels the I-5 corridor. Place of performance is a state tag, not a catchment.

Fourteen thousand three hundred twenty-three records is a mid-count VA file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, far fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 14,323 as 14,323 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Oregon is the both-keys table. Oregon federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an OR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Portland-versus-eastern-Oregon clinic folklore is not a packet split. $6,843,248,835.42 stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Oregon did not “cause” $6,843,248,835.42 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × OR only.

Agency 036 is not a veteran census

$6,843,248,835.42 does not measure enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an OR place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 14,323 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Oregon federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $6,843,248,835.42 and 14,323, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, California, and Idaho VA cells are other pairs, not addends.

Oregon place of performance, not the Pacific Northwest

Place of performance OR is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington and California even when a veteran travels the I-5 corridor. Place of performance is a state tag, not a catchment. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Portland-versus-eastern-Oregon clinic folklore is not a packet split. $6,843,248,835.42 stays statewide. This packet does not split $6,843,248,835.42 by city, county, or named facility. 14,323 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Commitments, not clinic cash already paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $6,843,248,835.42 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Oregon confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Oregon’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 14,323-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 $6,843,248,835.42.

Citing the VA–Oregon join

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $6,843,248,835.42 on 14,323 awards coded to Oregon. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Oregon if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Oregon federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to OR. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the OR filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $6,843,248,835.42.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Oregon, $6,843,248,835.42, and 14,323. The compact headline $6.84 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $477,780 is $6,843,248,835.42 divided by 14,323. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $6,843,248,835.42 across 14,323 awards with awarding agency 036 and an Oregon tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Oregon is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $6,843,248,835.42.

Is $6,843,248,835.42 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $6,843,248,835.42 and 14,323 awards for agency 036 inside OR 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 14,323 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × OR. Combined with $6,843,248,835.42, the average is about $477,780. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 14,323 is not unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, 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 Oregon is the overlay. Oregon 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 $6,843,248,835.42. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.