Construction donors and dollars in the 2012 cycle

The join key behind $1.5 million in 2012

The packet facts for this join are occupation CONSTRUCTION, occupation total $17,948,059, cycle 2012, cycle total $1,467,205, 1,295 contributions, and 654 donors. 8.2% is $1,467,205 as a share of $17,948,059. No other dollar, year, or headcount belongs on this page.

Internal links stay inside that inventory: Construction donations for the occupation hub, 2012 election cycle for the cycle hub, all occupations for peer strings, and all FEC ties for other joins. Those pages do not add receipts to federal awards and do not convert occupation strings into NAICS codes.

Reading $17.9 million without flattening 2012

The occupation-wide total for CONSTRUCTION on this extract is $17,948,059 ($17.9 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2012. $1,467,205 is the 2012 slice (8.2%). CONSTRUCTION here is an occupation string, not a NAICS construction-industry total and not a contractor PAC. CONTRACTOR, CONSTRUCTION OWNER, and BUILDER remain separate keys. The page does not recode those strings into CONSTRUCTION.

Party, office, and recipient committee are not in this packet’s occupation facts. $17,948,059 is dollars on the string, not dollars to a party. If you need recipient mix, use the occupation hub’s committee tables rather than reading a party into $1,467,205. This join’s facts stop at occupation, cycle, dollars, rows, and donors.

2012 itemized lines for the Construction string

The 2012 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2012 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, Construction accounts for $1,467,205 on 1,295 contributions from 654 donors.

Cycle hubs change when bulk files are reloaded. Occupation hubs change when strings are re-aggregated. This join inherits both refresh paths. After a reload, confirm $1,467,205, 1,295, and 654 on 2012 election cycle and Construction donations before quoting the snapshot.

Using $2,243 per donor without inventing a typical gift

1,295 contributions and 654 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. 1,295 divided by 654 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,467,205 divided by 654 is about $2,243 per donor; $1,467,205 divided by 1,295 is about $1,133 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

$1,133 per line is a check on scale, not a legal limit. Federal contribution limits vary by recipient and year and are not a field in this packet. Do not infer a limit from $1,133 or $2,243. Cite the FEC limit tables if you need that rule; they are outside these facts.

A complete citation names occupation CONSTRUCTION, cycle 2012, dollars $1,467,205, contribution lines 1,295, and unique donors 654. 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 1,295 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Where to go next from this occupation–cycle cell

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 Construction as a profession acted in concert in 2012.

Use all FEC ties to move to another occupation–cycle pair without treating this cell as a baseline rank. Use all occupations to see other strings. Use Construction donations and 2012 election cycle for the unjoined hubs. Quote $1,467,205 with 2012 and CONSTRUCTION attached every time.

Construction donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2012 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2012. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,467,205 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Construction as more influential than another title.

Questions

What did people listing Construction disclose in 2012?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation CONSTRUCTION total $1,467,205 in the 2012 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 1,295 contributions and 654 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $17,948,059, so 2012 is 8.2% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Is this page the same as the Construction occupation hub?

No. $1,467,205 is the 2012 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $17,948,059 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Construction donations and not a restatement of 2012 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

Does each contribution equal one Construction donor?

The join lists 654 unique donors and 1,295 contribution lines for CONSTRUCTION in 2012. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $2,243 per donor and $1,133 per line are means from $1,467,205, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Can I treat Construction as a NAICS or BLS group?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string CONSTRUCTION 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 Construction donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.