National Archives and Records Administration federal obligations in California

A very thin NARA file on California

National Archives and Records Administration as awarding agency, California as place-of-performance: 57 records summing to $83,962,829.61. A National Archives and Records Administration award coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. A College Park-coded award is MD even if a researcher later uses a California facility. Awarding agency 088 is the NARA parent. Presidential libraries and regional facilities are unpublished splits.

Fifty-seven records against $83,962,829.61 is an extreme-thin, high-mean NARA file. Fiscal vehicles can mint few rows with large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 57 as 57 unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. The overlay National Archives and Records Administration in California is the both-keys table. California federal spending is the all-agency state hub. National Archives and Records Administration is the agency book without a CA filter. All spending ties lists other joins. Named facilities are unpublished. Do not assign $83,962,829.61 to a single California archives building or to a researcher headcount. Correlation is not causation: California did not cause $83,962,829.61 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 088 × CA only.

Not archival boxes or named facilities

$83,962,829.61 does not measure unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 088 and a CA place-of-performance tag. Awarding agency 088 is the NARA parent. Presidential libraries and regional facilities are unpublished splits.

Do not treat 57 awards as a census of unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or National Archives and Records Administration matched $83,962,829.61 and 57, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona NARA joins are other pairs, not addends. Fifty-seven is not unique California researchers. The implied mean is a quotient, not a typical box-storage invoice.

California statewide, not a Laguna Niguel-only map

Place of performance CA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico. A College Park-coded award is MD even if a researcher later uses a California facility. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Los Angeles, the Bay Area, San Diego, and the rest of the counties share one CA stamp.

Named facilities are unpublished. Do not assign $83,962,829.61 to a single California archives building or to a researcher headcount. This packet does not split $83,962,829.61 by city, county, or named facility. 57 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Few rows can still be large obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $83,962,829.61 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in California confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

California’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 57-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 $83,962,829.61. Fifty-seven is not unique California researchers. The implied mean is a quotient, not a typical box-storage invoice.

Citing NARA in California

Cite USAspending.gov: National Archives and Records Administration (agency 088) obligated $83,962,829.61 on 57 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. The pair is NARA plus California, not a statewide box inventory.

Prefer National Archives and Records Administration in California if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CA. National Archives and Records Administration is the 088 parent without the CA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $83,962,829.61. A usable footnote names National Archives and Records Administration, California, $83,962,829.61, and 57. The compact headline $84.0 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.47 million is $83,962,829.61 divided by 57. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the National Archives and Records Administration obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $83,962,829.61 across 57 awards with awarding agency 088 and a California tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. National Archives and Records Administration in California is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $83,962,829.61.

Is $83,962,829.61 a measure of unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers?

No. The packet publishes $83,962,829.61 and 57 awards for agency 088 inside CA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 57 NARA awards mean 57 California facilities?

No. 57 is the award-record count for 088 × CA. Combined with $83,962,829.61, the average is about $1.47 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 57 is not unique archival boxes, named facilities, or unique researchers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live NARA–California table?

National Archives and Records Administration in California is the overlay. California federal spending and National Archives and Records Administration are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $83,962,829.61. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.