Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in South Dakota

A high-count VA file on South Dakota

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, South Dakota as place-of-performance: 15,129 records summing to $2,014,350,723.84. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside SD is out. An award in South Dakota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Fargo-coded award is ND even if a veteran later uses a South Dakota clinic. Medical care, benefits, and other VA accounts are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 036.

Fifteen thousand one hundred twenty-nine awards is a thick VA action file: many more rows than a thin Energy-style cell, still a record count rather than unique veterans. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 15,129 as 15,129 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in South Dakota is the both-keys table. South Dakota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an SD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Sioux Falls and Rapid City are unpublished. Do not treat 15,129 as two metro clinic lists glued together. Correlation is not causation: South Dakota did not “cause” $2,014,350,723.84 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × SD only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$2,014,350,723.84 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 SD place-of-performance tag. Medical care, benefits, and other VA accounts are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 036.

Do not treat 15,129 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If South Dakota federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $2,014,350,723.84 and 15,129, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. North Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

South Dakota, not Sioux Falls versus the west

Place of performance SD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. South Dakota (SD) excludes North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and Wyoming. A Fargo-coded award is ND even if a veteran later uses a South Dakota clinic. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, and the rest of the counties share one SD stamp.

Sioux Falls and Rapid City are unpublished. Do not treat 15,129 as two metro clinic lists glued together. This packet does not split $2,014,350,723.84 by city, county, or named facility. 15,129 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations ahead of clinic cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,014,350,723.84 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in South Dakota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

South Dakota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 15,129-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 $2,014,350,723.84.

Citing the VA–South Dakota pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $2,014,350,723.84 on 15,129 awards coded to South Dakota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in South Dakota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. South Dakota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to SD. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the SD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,014,350,723.84. A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, South Dakota, $2,014,350,723.84, and 15,129. The compact headline $2.01 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $133,145 is $2,014,350,723.84 divided by 15,129. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in South Dakota?

USAspending.gov records $2,014,350,723.84 across 15,129 awards with awarding agency 036 and a South Dakota 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 South Dakota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,014,350,723.84.

Is $2,014,350,723.84 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $2,014,350,723.84 and 15,129 awards for agency 036 inside SD 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 15,129 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × SD. Combined with $2,014,350,723.84, the average is about $133,145. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 15,129 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 VA–South Dakota table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in South Dakota is the overlay. South Dakota 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 $2,014,350,723.84. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.