HOUSEWIFE as filed on FEC occupation lines

What the file actually contains

7,244 donor records against $49,165,452 averages about $6,787 per donor record. 146,444 itemizations imply about $336 per contribution and about 20 contributions per donor record. The repeat rate is in line with several professional labels even though the title is a household-status word.

Homemaker, stay-at-home parent, and retired are other strings if donors used those words. This page is HOUSEWIFE only: $49,165,452, 146,444 contributions, 7,244 donors. Combining household-status titles would invent a total the bulk file does not publish.

Federal itemization rules apply to the contributor as a person. The occupation word does not create a separate legal category.

Self-reporting and dated language

Committees record occupation as supplied. Older filings and some current ones still carry HOUSEWIFE. Best-efforts rules require asking for occupation; they do not require a contemporary job taxonomy. LobbyVault indexes the string rather than rewriting it.

The label does not identify household income, spouse occupation, or whether the donor also listed an employer. Employer is a separate field and is not one of the three packet facts.

What not to infer

Do not treat $49,165,452 as “women’s giving.” Gender is not in these three facts. Do not treat the page as a homemaker census. 7,244 is a contributor-record count for this exact string.

Party and candidate office are other FEC fields. This overlay does not assign them. Industry pages will not map onto HOUSEWIFE as if it were a sector. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $49.2 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Using the hub

Cite $49,165,452, 146,444 contributions, and 7,244 donors. Open the HOUSEWIFE occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring status labels as separate keys if they exist in the extract.

Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $49.2 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Limits

Live filters may change displayed sums. These three numbers do not measure unpaid labor, household wealth, or spouse-attributed giving beyond what each itemization already records about the named contributor.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep HOUSEWIFE on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $49.2 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $49.2 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

HOUSEWIFE as historical filed text, not a gender statistic

HOUSEWIFE is $49.2 million on 146,444 itemizations from 7,244 donor records. Mean amounts are about $336 per itemization and about $6,787 per donor record, with about 20 itemizations per donor. Homemaker and related status words are other strings. The occupation column does not encode gender. Treating $49,165,452 as “women’s giving” adds a variable the packet does not contain.

Older filings still carry this label; newer ones may too. LobbyVault indexes the string rather than rewriting it. 7,244 is a contributor-record count for this exact text. Industry pages will not map onto HOUSEWIFE as a sector. Cite the three facts as self-reported occupation on itemized receipts, and keep household wealth and spouse occupation out of the sentence unless those fields are separately sourced. HOUSEWIFE survives in FEC bulk data because occupation is free text, including on older schedules. Seven thousand two hundred forty-four donor records and 146,444 itemizations produced $49.2 million. Homemaker is a different string. Gender is not a field in these facts. A careful citation names the filed word, the three counts, and the self-reported nature of Form 3/3X occupation.

Questions

How much have HOUSEWIFE-occupation donors given?

Occupation HOUSEWIFE is attached to $49,165,452 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 146,444 contributions and 7,244 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money for that exact string. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Is HOUSEWIFE the same as homemaker in FEC data?

Not automatically. Occupation is free text. Homemaker is a different string if that is what the donor wrote. This page covers HOUSEWIFE only: $49,165,452, 146,444 contributions, 7,244 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Does this total count as women’s political giving?

No. The occupation column does not encode gender. $49,165,452 is money on lines that happen to carry this historical self-reported label. The matching contribution count is 146,444 and the matching donor-record count is 7,244. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

What is the average HOUSEWIFE contribution?

$49,165,452 divided by 146,444 itemizations is about $336 per contribution. Divided by 7,244 donors, the mean is about $6,787 per donor record. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.