Economist occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Economist as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation ECONOMIST and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,179,789, 1,423 contributions, and 622 donors. ECONOMIST in 2008 is a professional title on itemized receipts. FEC.gov does not verify degrees or employer type. The occupation hub is $15,061,265 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2008 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008’s dollar share is 7.8% ($1,179,789 of $15,061,265). The remainder, $13,881,476, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. More than six hundred donor keys and over a thousand lines is a broad professional cell in a presidential window. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,179,789.

The ECONOMIST string across every cycle on file

$15,061,265 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2008. Economics, Analyst, and Professor are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Adding those keys to $15,061,265 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Economist donations for the $15,061,265 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

622 donors and a four-figure mean gift

Dividing $1,179,789 by 1,423 contributions yields about $829 per gift. Dividing by 622 donors yields about $1,897 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.3 (1,423 ÷ 622). Those ratios describe this string in 2008, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

622 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2008. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 622 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2008 receipts beside this cell. Think-tank, university, and private-sector economists can share this string. The packet has no employer table to split them.

What a 2008 Economist share is not

A 7.8% share of Economist-coded dollars from 2008 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. 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 2008 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $1,179,789 as itemized individual receipts tagged ECONOMIST in 2008, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Economist × 2008

A complete claim names Economist and 2008, then $1,179,789, 1,423 contributions, 622 donors, and 7.8% of $15,061,265, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 622 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Economist and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $829 and mean per donor $1,897 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Analyst as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $13,881,476 outside 2008. Most of the $15,061,265 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Economics, Analyst, and Professor are other occupation keys if stored as different strings. Those titles are not parents of ECONOMIST on this page. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 2.3. That ratio is 1,423 divided by 622, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Economist-tagged donors give in 2008?

The join records $1,179,789 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Economist in the 2008 FEC cycle, from 1,423 contributions and 622 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $15,061,265, so 2008 is 7.8% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every economist who donated in 2008?

No. The 622 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to ECONOMIST in 2008. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $1,179,789 on 1,423 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Economist occupation money is the 2008 cycle?

7.8%: $1,179,789 of $15,061,265. The remaining $13,881,476 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $1,179,789 divided by $15,061,265, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Economist and 2008 tables?

Economist donations carries the $15,061,265 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle hub places Economist 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 Economist × 2008 intersection only.