Agriculture (industry string) and the 2012 FEC cycle

The Agriculture × 2012 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Agriculture and 2012 yields $476,013. That is 411 itemized lines and 135 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Self-reported industry word, not a farm census can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping AGRICULTURE. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 135 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $5,317,336. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Agriculture money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $5,317,336 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $476,013, about 9.0%. The leftover $4,841,323 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$5,317,336 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 9.0% describes 2012 inside Agriculture, nothing else. $5,317,336 is the running sum for exact string AGRICULTURE. 2012 contributes $476,013 (9.0%); the complement is $4,841,323 (91.0%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $476,013

Packet arithmetic: $476,013 ÷ 411 ≈ $1,158 per contribution; $476,013 ÷ 135 ≈ $3,526 per donor; 411 ÷ 135 ≈ 3.0 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 135 unique donors produced 411 itemized receipts. The implied 3.0 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2012 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Agriculture and the 2012 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is AGRICULTURE in 2012: $476,013, 411 contributions, 135 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2012 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2012 election cycle hub still contains every other occupation string. This tie keeps Agriculture on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $476,013 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2012 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Agriculture entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $476,013 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 411 or $476,013. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $476,013. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping AGRICULTURE, election cycle 2012, $476,013, 411 contributions, 135 donors (9.0% of $5,317,336 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $476,013, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Agriculture 2012 for the overlay, Agriculture for other years, 2012 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Agriculture in 2012 is $476,013 from 411 itemized individual contributions and 135 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $5,317,336 across cycles, so 2012 is about 9.0% and other windows hold $4,841,323 (91.0%). The grouping is self-reported industry word, not a farm census, not USDA program spending, a NAICS agriculture rollup, or a farm-bureau PAC. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $1,158; mean per donor about $3,526; about 3.0 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $476,013.

Questions

How much did Agriculture donors give in 2012?

$476,013 is the itemized-individual total for AGRICULTURE in 2012. Volume: 411 contributions, 135 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $476,013, 411 contributions, and 135 donors in the Agriculture × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,317,336.

What share of Agriculture FEC money is 2012?

2012 holds $476,013 of the $5,317,336 stored for Agriculture, roughly 9.0%. The leftover $4,841,323 is other windows on the Agriculture hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $476,013, 411 contributions, and 135 donors in the Agriculture × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,317,336.

Is Agriculture a verified farm or USDA category?

It is form text, not a license file. FEC.gov aggregated $476,013 for AGRICULTURE in 2012 (411 contributions, 135 donors). Related occupation strings are not merged. FEC.gov is the source for $476,013, 411 contributions, and 135 donors in the Agriculture × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,317,336.

Where is the overlay for the Agriculture 2012 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Agriculture 2012, Agriculture, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $476,013 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $476,013, 411 contributions, and 135 donors in the Agriculture × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $5,317,336.