Geologist donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Two keys: GEOLOGIST and 2014

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string GEOLOGIST, cycle 2014. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $464,004, from 548 contributions and 253 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a self-reported occupation. Free-text fields let filers write a longer title, a nearby spelling, or an employer instead. Those rows are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets. Neighbors include geophysicist, petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and earth scientist.

$464,004 is smaller than $9,308,121 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2014 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point. GEOLOGIST is the generic science title. Petroleum geologist is a longer neighboring string with its own path if stored that way.

Geologist as typed, not a census

After this 2014 cell of $464,004, $8,844,117 of the Geologist grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 95.0% of $9,308,121. The 2014 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2014 total is supplied, so no share of the election is claimed. 5.0% is Geologist-internal. Petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology is unpublished.

Means on $464,004

253 donors and 548 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 2.2 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$1,834 per donor and $847 per line are derived from $464,004. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. Petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology remains unpublished.

2014 is not Election Day

An election-night search is the wrong grain for $464,004. The FEC cycle 2014 is a two-year bucket. Dates belong on the overlay, not in invented subtotals.

The cycle hub and this tie differ by one filter. The hub is all strings in 2014. The tie is Geologist in 2014. Only the tie is $464,004. GEOLOGIST is the generic science title. Petroleum geologist is a longer neighboring string with its own path if stored that way.

Form text is not a payroll file

Do not treat 548 receipts as unique workers in the trade named GEOLOGIST. Do not treat 253 donors as a labor-force estimate. Petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology is unpublished. Energy and professional-society PAC filings file as committees and are omitted.

GEOLOGIST is the generic science title. Petroleum geologist is a longer neighboring string with its own path if stored that way. Neighbors — geophysicist, petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and earth scientist — stay on their own occupation-cycle URLs. Mixing them into $464,004 would invent a sector total this packet does not contain.

Keeping $464,004 attached to both keys

Keep both nouns in every citation: Geologist and 2014. Dropping the year turns $464,004 into $9,308,121. Dropping the occupation turns this cell into the year hub, which this packet does not quantify.

Internal paths: /occupations/geologist/ for the occupation running total, /election-cycles/2014/ for the year without this title, /occupations/ for neighboring strings, /ties/ for other joins. GEOLOGIST is the generic science title. Petroleum geologist is a longer neighboring string with its own path if stored that way.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation GEOLOGIST ∩ cycle 2014 = $464,004 itemized individual contributions, 548 receipts, 253 donors, 5.0% of $9,308,121. Neighbors remain geophysicist, petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and earth scientist. Unpublished split: petroleum versus environmental versus academic geology. Not recoded into an AAPG membership roll, a state geologist-license roster, or a USGS staff list. Source remains FEC.gov. GEOLOGIST is the generic science title. Petroleum geologist is a longer neighboring string with its own path if stored that way.

Questions

What did occupation GEOLOGIST itemize in 2014?

Filers who listed Geologist itemized $464,004 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 548 receipts and 253 donors. That is 5.0% of $9,308,121 under GEOLOGIST. Geophysicist, petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and earth scientist are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Do committee filings sit inside Geologist 2014 money?

No. $464,004 is individual contributions tagged Geologist in 2014. Energy and professional-society PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $464,004 would blend FEC tables. See Geologist donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Geologist in 2014 is $464,004 on 548 receipts from 253 donors.

Does this page merge neighboring occupation strings?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses GEOLOGIST. Geophysicist, petroleum geologist, hydrologist, and earth scientist are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an AAPG membership roll, a state geologist-license roster, or a USGS staff list. Cite $464,004 for this title in 2014 on 548 receipts from 253 donors.

What join produces $464,004?

Geologist donations ($9.3 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $464,004 from 548 receipts and 253 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Geologist in 2014.