Graduate Student money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Graduate Student as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation GRADUATE STUDENT and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $325,171 ($0.33 million), 461 contributions, and 84 donors. 5.5% of Graduate Student occupation dollars ($5,871,698) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year FEC window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. A high receipts-per-donor ratio can appear when a smaller unique-donor set itemizes many gifts. That ratio is not a headcount of a graduate program. Student without the modifier is a different occupation key. Combining Student and Graduate Student would mix stored spellings.

A two-word enrollment title, not the one-word Student bucket

On the occupation side, $5,871,698 is the Graduate Student total across cycles. Sibling labels (STUDENT, PHD STUDENT, and LAW STUDENT) stay on other pages. Graduate Student is not an IPEDS enrollment census, a university PAC, or a merge with Student.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $5,871,698. The Graduate Student donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $325,171 is a slice of. Dividing $325,171 by 461 receipts yields about $705 per line; dividing by 84 donors yields about $3,871 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

84 donors and a high receipts-per-donor ratio

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Graduate Student. $325,171 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. A presidential-year FEC window. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

461 itemized lines from 84 unique donors is about 5.5 receipts per donor. Mean per line about $705; mean per donor about $3,871. About 5.5 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $325,171. Under one hundred donor keys with hundreds of lines is a concentrated academic-status cell: more receipts than unique people.

What Graduate Student dollars in 2008 are not

Matching Graduate Student with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Graduate Student donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an IPEDS enrollment census, a university PAC, or a merge with Student.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. A high receipts-per-donor ratio can appear when a smaller unique-donor set itemizes many gifts. That ratio is not a headcount of a graduate program. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $325,171 funded USAspending obligations.

How to cite Graduate Student × 2008

A complete claim names Graduate Student and 2008, then $325,171, 461 contributions, 84 donors, and 5.5% of $5,871,698, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 84 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Graduate Student and 2008—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $705 and mean per donor $3,871 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2008 hub, and Student as a sibling

Graduate Student donations holds the $5,871,698 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Graduate Student. All occupations places GRADUATE STUDENT beside other titles without merging sibling strings (STUDENT, PHD STUDENT, and LAW STUDENT). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $325,171 is not added to a different year. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

The occupation hub still holds $5,546,527 (94.5%) outside 2008. Most of the $5,871,698 roll is not this cycle’s cell. Student without the modifier is a different occupation key. Combining Student and Graduate Student would mix stored spellings. Gifts per donor in 2008 average about 5.5. That ratio is 461 divided by 84, not a measure of turnout. Quote both keys: Graduate Student and 2008. Quote the dollars: $325,171. Quote the volume: 461 contributions, 84 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Graduate Student-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Graduate Student grouping’s 2008 cell is $325,171 in itemized individual contributions, from 461 contributions and 84 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $5,871,698 all-cycle occupation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does Graduate Student include undergraduates who typed Student?

No. GRADUATE STUDENT is the two-word string. STUDENT without the modifier is a separate occupation page. The 2008 cycle filter on Graduate Student is $325,171, 461 contributions, and 84 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $5,871,698.

What share of Graduate Student FEC money fell in 2008?

About 5.5%. $325,171 divided by $5,871,698 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 94.5% ($5,546,527) on the occupation hub. See the Graduate Student occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Graduate Student 2008 money fund federal awards?

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. $325,171 is itemized receipts tagged GRADUATE STUDENT in 2008, not an obligation total. Cite the 2008 intersection as $325,171 and 461 contributions from 84 donors, not the $5,871,698 occupation total.