Department of Veterans Affairs federal obligations in Utah

A high-count VA file on Utah

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Utah as place-of-performance: 9,990 records summing to $4,320,954,844.54. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside UT is out. An award in Utah from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Utah (UT) excludes Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico. A Las Vegas-coded award is Nevada.

Nine thousand nine hundred ninety awards is a high-count VA action file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, still a record count rather than unique veterans. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 9,990 as 9,990 unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Utah is the both-keys table. Utah federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without a UT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Salt Lake City is not a published metro share of $4,320,954,844.54. The join stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Utah did not “cause” $4,320,954,844.54 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × UT only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$4,320,954,844.54 does not measure veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and a UT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 9,990 awards as a census of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Utah federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $4,320,954,844.54 and 9,990, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Utah, not a Wasatch-versus-rural split

Place of performance UT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Utah (UT) excludes Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico. A Las Vegas-coded award is Nevada. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Salt Lake City is not a published metro share of $4,320,954,844.54. The join stays statewide. This packet does not split $4,320,954,844.54 by city, county, or named facility. 9,990 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. $4,320,954,844.54 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Utah confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Utah’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 9,990-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 $4,320,954,844.54. Sharing a state with VA does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing the VA–Utah pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Veterans Affairs (agency 036) obligated $4,320,954,844.54 on 9,990 awards coded to Utah. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings.

Prefer Department of Veterans Affairs in Utah if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Utah federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to UT. Department of Veterans Affairs is the 036 parent without the UT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,320,954,844.54.

A usable footnote names Department of Veterans Affairs, Utah, $4,320,954,844.54, and 9,990. The compact headline $4.32 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $432,528 is $4,320,954,844.54 divided by 9,990. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

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

USAspending.gov records $4,320,954,844.54 across 9,990 awards with awarding agency 036 and an Utah tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Utah is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,320,954,844.54.

Is $4,320,954,844.54 a measure of veteran headcount, clinic visits, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $4,320,954,844.54 and 9,990 awards for agency 036 inside UT 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 9,990 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × UT. Combined with $4,320,954,844.54, the average is about $432,528. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 9,990 is not unique veteran headcount, clinic visits, 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 Utah is the overlay. Utah 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 $4,320,954,844.54. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.