Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing federal obligations in California

Inorganic chemicals and California as a pair

Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing as the NAICS industry, California as place of performance: 78 records summing to $920,231,113.91. An award in this industry coded outside CA is out. An award in California from a different NAICS is out even if the work sounds related. California (CA) excludes Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility.

78 awards is a thin industry cell. A small row count can still sum to a large obligation total when individual instruments are large. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 78 as 78 unique establishments. The overlay path for this pair is the ties page for other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing in California. California federal spending is the all-industry state hub. NAICS 325180 is the industry book without a CA filter. California industries lists other NAICS cells inside the state. All spending ties lists other joins.

The implied mean is about $11,797,835 per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. On a thin file the mean is sensitive to a handful of large rows. Dollars and row counts tell different stories on the same join. Correlation is not causation: California did not “cause” $920,231,113.91 by existing as a large or small place, and NAICS 325180 did not “cause” the geography tag. Population, employment, and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 325180 × CA only.

Chemical manufacturing, not a tonnage ledger

$920,231,113.91 does not measure tons of chemicals produced or plants in operation. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. NAICS 325180 covers other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing: inorganic chemicals not classified in more specific 3251 codes, as tagged on the award. It is not a tonnage series and not a count of chemical plants. The cell sums award obligations with NAICS 325180 and a CA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 78 awards as a census of tons produced. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If California federal spending or the national NAICS 325180 table matched $920,231,113.91 and 78, the join would be pointless. Use the ties page when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state cells for the same NAICS are other pairs, not addends.

California statewide, not a local 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, and Arizona. An award coded to a neighboring state is out even if the contractor sits in California. Recipient headquarters can sit in another state while the place-of-performance tag remains CA. Contractor address is not this filter.

California place-of-performance is a statewide tag, not Los Angeles, San Diego, the Bay Area, or a named facility. This packet does not split $920,231,113.91 by city, county, installation, or named facility. 78 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. Do not infer a regional ranking from a single state×industry cell.

Obligations still are not outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $920,231,113.91 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 78-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 $920,231,113.91. Campaign-finance filings are a different dataset; this page does not treat donations as funding these awards.

Citing Inorganic chemicals in California

Cite USAspending.gov: Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325180) obligated $920,231,113.91 on 78 awards coded to California. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as tons of chemicals produced or plants in operation.

Prefer the ties page for other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing in California if a live overlay has refreshed after an ingest. California federal spending still includes every other NAICS tagged to CA. NAICS 325180 is the industry parent without the CA filter. California industries is the state’s industry index. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $920,231,113.91.

A usable footnote names Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing, California, NAICS 325180, $920,231,113.91, and 78. The compact headline $920M is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $11,797,835 is $920,231,113.91 divided by 78. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the federal government obligated for other basic inorganic chemical manufacturing in California?

USAspending.gov records $920,231,113.91 across 78 awards with NAICS 325180 and a California place-of-performance tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of tons produced. Keep both keys when quoting $920,231,113.91.

Does this total measure tons of chemicals produced?

No. The packet publishes $920,231,113.91 and 78 awards for NAICS 325180 inside CA coding. Tons of chemicals produced or plants in operation are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this California file have 78 awards?

That is the award-record count for 325180 × CA. Combined with $920,231,113.91, the average is about $11,797,835. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 78 is not unique tons produced. Later ingests can revise the count.

Where is the live table?

California federal spending and NAICS 325180 are the parents, not addends. California industries lists other NAICS cells in the state. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $920,231,113.91. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.