Associate and the 2014 election cycle on FEC.gov

The relationship: Associate receipts inside 2014

The headline number is $1,281,618 ($1.3 million) for Associate in 2014. Share of the occupation extract: 8.6% of $14,867,080. Contribution rows: 2,098. Unique donors: 335. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered, so spelling, punctuation, and job-title fashion all split people across keys.

A join is not a causal story. 2,098 lines in 2014 do not prove that Associate as a labor category moved a race. They prove that this many itemized receipts carried this string in this cycle window. Open Associate donations for the all-cycle occupation table, 2014 election cycle for the cycle table, all occupations for sibling strings, and all FEC ties for other two-dimension pages.

$14,867,080 is the all-cycle Associate figure

The occupation-wide total for ASSOCIATE on this extract is $14,867,080 ($14.9 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2014. $1,281,618 is the 2014 slice (8.6%). ASSOCIATE is a generic title. ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, SALES ASSOCIATE, and ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR are other keys unless the filer typed ASSOCIATE alone. The join does not infer a profession from the single word.

Sibling titles are not in $14,867,080 unless the filer typed ASSOCIATE exactly. That is why all occupations exists: so a reader can see neighboring strings without folding them into Associate. Folding them here would invent a cluster the FEC field does not contain. Keep $14,867,080 attached to this string only.

Cycle 2014 as a filter on Associate receipts

The 2014 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2014 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Associate accounts for $1,281,618 on 2,098 contributions from 335 donors.

Amended filings can move a receipt across a cycle boundary or change an occupation string. If FEC.gov later shows a different 2014 total for ASSOCIATE, the live hubs win. This JSON is a packet snapshot. Rewrite the cycle sentence when the extract moves; do not average old and new cells.

How to cite the 2014 donor and line counts

2,098 contributions and 335 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 2,098 divided by 335 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,281,618 divided by 335 is about $3,826 per donor; $1,281,618 divided by 2,098 is about $611 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

If a later extract changes only the unique-donor count, keep $1,281,618 and 2,098 unless those moved too. The three measures can move independently when matching rules change. This page will not invent a fourth measure such as households or zip clusters.

A complete citation names occupation ASSOCIATE, cycle 2014, dollars $1,281,618, contribution lines 2,098, and unique donors 335. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 2,098 as people. Keep all five tokens.

How to cite the join without overclaiming

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Associate as a profession acted in concert in 2014.

Do not recode ASSOCIATE into an industry, a union, a PAC, or a NAICS sector on the strength of this page. Industry joins are other packets. PAC joins are other packets. This one stops at occupation and cycle. $1,281,618, 2,098, 335, $14,867,080, and 2014 are the usable figures.

Questions

How much Associate money shows up in 2014 on FEC.gov?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation ASSOCIATE total $1,281,618 in the 2014 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 2,098 contributions and 335 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $14,867,080, so 2014 is 8.6% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

How does $1,281,618 relate to $14,867,080?

No. $1,281,618 is the 2014 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $14,867,080 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Associate donations and not a restatement of 2014 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

What do 335 donors and 2,098 lines mean?

The join lists 335 unique donors and 2,098 contribution lines for ASSOCIATE in 2014. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $3,826 per donor and $611 per line are means from $1,281,618, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Is ASSOCIATE a recoded occupation category?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string ASSOCIATE as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Associate donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.