Author occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

The Author and 2012 join

LobbyVault stores this URL because two tables share rows: the Author occupation aggregate and the 2012 election-cycle aggregate. The overlap is $756,612 on 652 itemized individual lines from 251 donor keys. AUTHOR is a creative occupation string. FEC.gov does not verify published books, advances, or guild membership. Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Author in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $756,612.

Share of AUTHOR is not share of all 2012 receipts. 3.9% describes this title bucket only. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope. Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger; this join does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants. Author-coded receipts in 2008 are a different cycle cell on the same occupation hub. $756,612 is the 2012 overlap only.

What the AUTHOR string covers

Open Author donations for the $19,237,050 roll. That hub still holds $18,480,438 outside 2012. Most of the occupation total is not this cycle’s cell when the year share is 3.9%. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year.

Author in 2012 is still the same filer-entered string as every other year on the occupation hub. What changes is the two-year clock and the harvested sums $756,612, 652, and 251. Keep both sides of the name when the dollars are quoted.

Itemized lines, donor keys, and 2012

652 is a line count, not 251 one-time gifts. Repeat itemization inside the same two-year window raises the gifts-per-donor figure to about 2.6. Mean dollars remain about $1,160 per line and $3,014 per donor in the cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by AUTHOR.

Donor keys are not named on this page. The packet supplies counts, not identities. Do not invent contributors, employers, or committees to explain $756,612. Filers who wrote Writer, Journalist, or Novelist sit in other occupation rows. The 2012 election cycle hub is the next click for named committees in that year, still without attaching those names to this occupation cell unless the live table shows the join.

Correlation is not causation for Author in 2012

Author in 2012 is not a copyright registry or a writers-guild roll. It is not a publishers’ association PAC, an ISBN file, or a bestseller list. The harvested occupation field is the string AUTHOR. Recodes into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class are researcher-built and are not this join.

Unitemized money never appears in $756,612. In-kind goods and earmarks without this occupation string are outside the cell. Committee PACs and other committee filings sit on committee reports, not on this individual-contribution occupation join. Keep itemized in the sentence.

Quoting $756,612 without mixing tables

Write Author, 2012, $756,612, 652 contributions, and 251 donors in one sentence. Add 3.9% of $19,237,050 if the occupation share matters. Source FEC.gov. That sentence is the join. It is not a license census and not a federal award total.

Live tables remain the occupation hub and the 2012 cycle hub. This prose is a packet snapshot of the join. If FEC.gov restates an amendment, the overlay updates; do not keep a stale $756,612 after the live Author table has moved.

Writer and other neighboring keys

Use Author donations when the question is every cycle under AUTHOR. Use the 2012 election cycle when the question is every occupation in 2012. Use this page when the question is both: Author and 2012, $756,612, 652 receipts, 251 donors.

Repeat the four numbers together: $756,612 in the 2012 cycle, 652 contributions, 251 donors, and 3.9% of $19,237,050. That sentence is the join. It is not a license census and not a federal award total. Author-coded receipts in 2008 are a different cycle cell on the same occupation hub. $756,612 is the 2012 overlap only.

Author remains a filer-entered occupation string on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations. The 2012 presidential window is the second filter. Together they produce $756,612, 652 contributions, and 251 donors. Researchers who need employer, committee, or party splits must leave this packet; those dimensions are not facts here. Neighboring titles Writer, Journalist, and Novelist stay on their own occupation hubs. The occupation total $19,237,050 still includes every other harvested cycle, which is why $18,480,438 sits off this page. Cite FEC.gov. Do not attach $756,612 to a copyright registry or a writers-guild roll or to a publishers’ PAC or a literary-association committee. Do not attach it to USAspending.gov awards. The join is the occupation AUTHOR and the election cycle 2012, nothing else.

Questions

What is the Author × 2012 dollar total?

The join records $756,612 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Author in the 2012 FEC cycle, from 652 contributions and 251 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $19,237,050, so 2012 is 3.9% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Author the same as Writer?

No. This cell is the exact string AUTHOR. Filers who wrote Writer, Journalist, or Novelist sit in other occupation rows. Combining those keys with $19,237,050 would be a recode. The 2012 overlap remains $756,612 on 652 lines from 251 donors, source FEC.gov.

Did Author donations pay for federal awards in 2012?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending.gov awards are different datasets. This page does not claim that $756,612 tagged Author in 2012 funded contracts or grants. The cell is 652 itemized receipts from 251 donors, 3.9% of $19,237,050. Quote the occupation-cycle join only. Source FEC.gov.

Where are the live Author and 2012 tables?

Author donations carries the $19,237,050 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle hub places Author beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Author × 2012 intersection only.