Engineer and the 2012 FEC cycle

Engineer meeting the 2012 cycle

This page is the inner join of two dimensions. One is the grouped occupation string Engineer. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $1,755,710, built from 1,395 itemized gifts and 372 unique donors. The occupation hub drops the cycle filter; the cycle hub drops the occupation filter. Neither hub is this cell.

Average contribution is about $1,259; average per donor is about $4,720. Those means sit near ordinary itemized individual gifts. Volume, not a few giant checks, does most of the work in this cell.

Software engineer, civil engineer, and a firm name are separate groupings if stored separately. This cell is the one-word Engineer bucket.

Seven percent of a $24 million occupation stack

$24,337,583 is every cycle combined. $1,755,710 in 2012 is about 7.2% of that stack. Other windows hold a little less than 93%. A presidential-year cell at 7% is a noticeable chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history.

Lifetime scale here reflects how often the word appears on itemized individual receipts. It is not a Bureau of Labor Statistics headcount.

372 donors and 1,395 gifts

372 unique donors against 1,395 contributions implies some repeat giving inside 2011–2012. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. The unique-donor count does not.

A title on a form is not a license verification. Students, retirees, and people using a household occupation can all land in the same cell.

2012 as the cycle dimension

2012 covers federal activity in 2011–2012. Engineer’s $1,755,710 is one occupation slice of that window. Comparing occupation cells is arithmetic. Ranking STEM titles as more political is not supported by these four facts.

Recipients and parties belong on the overlay, not on this relationship record.

Disciplines the one-word bucket cannot split

Civil, software, petroleum, and “sales engineer” uses can all land in Engineer. The $1,755,710 cell does not split them. 372 donors and 1,395 gifts describe a high-volume presidential-year occupation cell with average gift size near $1,259 — many itemized rows, not a few giant checks.

A 7.2% share of $24,337,583 means other cycles hold most of the title’s published individual total. A PE license, a state board, and an ABET degree are all absent from the FEC record. Students, retirees, and household-occupation users can sit in the same 372 keys.

Defense, energy, and infrastructure awards are USAspending records. This join has no contract identifiers. Firm names, if present, appear on the overlay as employer text on individual receipts, still not as corporate contributions.

Discipline-level engineering stories cannot be told from a one-word bucket. $1,755,710 in 2012 from 1,395 gifts and 372 unique donors mixes civil, software, and other uses. Average gift size near $1,259 is volume arithmetic. A 7.2% share of $24,337,583 keeps the presidential-year cell in proportion to the title’s multi-cycle stack.

PE licenses, security clearances, and employer names are overlay or external-file problems. This relationship record has none of them. Defense and infrastructure awards remain USAspending records. Ranking Engineer against Architect or Contractor as a STEM political bloc would be assembling occupation words into a coalition the FEC file does not define.

A 2011 primary gift and a 2012 general gift share the $1,755,710 Engineer cell, and they share one of the 372 unique-donor keys if they came from the same person. That is why 1,395 contributions can exceed the donor count. The 7.2% share of $24,337,583 is the lifetime comparison. Discipline-level splits are not available from this string.

Limits of a professional-title join

The page does not identify employers or disciplines. It does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift. It does not link FEC receipts to defense, energy, or infrastructure awards in USAspending. Campaign gifts and federal obligations remain separate public records.

Use the Engineer 2012 overlay for receipts, the occupation hub for other years, the 2012 cycle hub for other strings, and the ties index for other joins.

Questions

How much did Engineer-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Engineer grouping’s 2012 cell is $1,755,710 in itemized individual contributions, from 1,395 contributions and 372 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a professional-society PAC and not the $24,337,583 all-cycle total.

Does this count only licensed professional engineers?

No. The bucket is the self-reported occupation string Engineer. The FEC does not verify licenses or disciplines. Longer titles may sit in other groupings if the pipeline stored them separately. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

What share of Engineer FEC money fell in 2012?

About 7.2%. $1,755,710 divided by $24,337,583 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold the rest on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Do these donations fund federal engineering contracts?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.