HOUSEWIFE
Total Donated
$49,165,452
Contributions
146,444
Unique Donors
7,244
Itemizations that list HOUSEWIFE as occupation sum to $49,165,452 in LobbyVault’s FEC.gov bulk index. Those receipts are 146,444 contributions from 7,244 donor records. HOUSEWIFE is the word as filed. It is a historical self-reported label still present in bulk data, not a modern labor-force category and not a statement about unpaid work as a political bloc. In compact form that dollar total is $49.2 million in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data.
Key figures
- HOUSEWIFE occupation itemizations sum to $49,165,452 from 146,444 contributions and 7,244 donors.
- Mean amounts are about $336 per contribution and about $6,787 per donor record.
- The word is self-reported FEC occupation text, including on older filings, not a labor-force category.
- The occupation column does not encode gender, household income, or party.
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.
Full analysis: HOUSEWIFE as filed on FEC occupation lines →
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.
Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. Indexed on LobbyVault from FEC bulk data.