Civil Engineer occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

2012 inside the Civil Engineer occupation book

Apply the Civil Engineer filter to the 2012 election cycle and the remaining money is $774,014. FEC.gov itemized that amount across 814 contributions and 402 donors. The overlay at the occupation path lists the relationship; the cycle hub lists the year without this filter.

Civil Engineer is an engineering occupation string, not a PE-license census. It is not NAICS. It is not a donor biography. 402 unique donors matched the stored string in 2012. Repeat gifts can raise 814 contributions without raising the donor count at the same pace.

The all-cycle Civil Engineer total of $7,540,113 still includes other windows. Citing $7,540,113 as if it were 2012 would overstate this cell. Citing the 2012 hub as if it were Civil Engineer-only would overstate the year.

The $7,540,113 occupation stack

The occupation hub holds $7,540,113. This cycle accounts for $774,014 (10.3%). The leftover $6,766,099 is other even-year windows. That leftover is not missing data; it is a different filter.

Citing $7,540,113 as if 2012 received all of it would overstate this join by $6,766,099. Civil Engineer remains an engineering occupation string, not a PE-license census. The 10.3% ratio is $774,014 divided by $7,540,113. Other even-year joins for CIVIL ENGINEER are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $6,766,099. Citing 2012 as if it were the Civil Engineer lifetime total would overstate this cell by $6,766,099.

Itemized count versus unique donors

Contribution count (814) and donor count (402) measure different things. The first counts itemized receipts; the second counts distinct identities in this aggregate. $774,014 is their dollar sum.

If a searcher wants names, the hubs are the next stop, not invented biographies. This JSON file reports 402 donors without listing them. A mean of $951 per itemized line and $1,925 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 814 contributions remaining larger than 402 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

10.3% in 2012, 89.7% elsewhere

10.3% of stored Civil Engineer money is tagged 2012 ($774,014). 89.7% is not ($6,766,099). Both percentages use $7,540,113 as the base. Changing the string changes the base.

The occupation hub holds the year-by-year index. This tie isolates 2012 so $7,540,113 is not mistaken for a two-year number. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $774,014 if they were itemized against CIVIL ENGINEER. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

Self-reported fields and missing tables

Missing from the packet: recipient names, party split, unitemized totals, PAC disbursements, and any USAspending figure. Present: $774,014, 814 contributions, 402 donors, $7,540,113 lifetime, cycle 2012, string CIVIL ENGINEER.

Self-reported fields create split spellings. ENGINEER, STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, and CONSULTING ENGINEER remain other keys. $774,014 does not absorb them. Civil Engineer as an engineering occupation string, not a PE-license census can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $774,014. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

What to carry forward from this packet

Carry forward $774,014, 814, 402, 10.3%, $7,540,113, and the string CIVIL ENGINEER. Leave behind invented recipients, party shares, and contract dollars. The source note is FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

$951 per contribution and $1,925 per donor are derived means. Label them as such. An engineering occupation string, not a pe-license census remains the right description of the grouping. Quote both keys: Civil Engineer and 2012. Quote the dollars: $774,014. Quote the volume: 814 contributions, 402 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Civil Engineer in 2012 is $774,014 from 814 itemized individual contributions and 402 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,540,113 across cycles, so 2012 is about 10.3% and other windows hold $6,766,099 (89.7%). The grouping is an engineering occupation string, not a PE-license census, not an engineering PAC, an ASCE roster, or Engineer stored as a shorter key. 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 $951; mean per donor about $1,925; about 2.0 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 $774,014.

Questions

How much did Civil Engineer-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Civil Engineer grouping’s 2012 cell is $774,014 in itemized individual contributions, from 814 contributions and 402 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $7,540,113 all-cycle occupation total.

What share of Civil Engineer FEC money fell in 2012?

About 10.3%. $774,014 divided by $7,540,113 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 89.7% ($6,766,099) on the occupation hub. See the Civil Engineer occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Civil Engineer mean licensed PEs only?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string CIVIL ENGINEER. The FEC does not verify licenses, job titles, or professional status. ENGINEER, STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, and CONSULTING ENGINEER may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2012 only, totaling $774,014 from 402 donors across 814 contributions.

Where is the overlay for Civil Engineer in 2012?

Open Civil Engineer donations for the occupation hub and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this occupation filter. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join. Cite FEC.gov for $774,014, 814 contributions, and 402 donors.