Graduate Student political money — 2014 cycle

The occupation-and-cycle join for Graduate Student

Headline number: $540,715. Contribution count: 138. Donor keys: 37. Occupation total: $5,871,698. Remainder outside 2014: $5,330,983. Share of the occupation roll: 9.2%. Those quantities are the join. Everything else on this page explains what they are and are not.

Graduate Student in 2014 is not Graduate Student in every year and is not 2014 for every occupation. Mixing those frames is how a hub restatement sneaks in. 37 donor keys and $540,715 exist only at the intersection. An occupation string does not mean the money funded federal contracts, and it does not mean the title caused the gifts.

GRADUATE STUDENT is the typed status. Student alone is a different occupation key. Degree program and campus are unpublished. FEC.gov stores cycle 2014 as a midterm even-year window. Use that label for dating the receipts, not for ranking Graduate Student against other titles. Independent expenditures are omitted. USAspending awards are a different statute.

Reading the Graduate Student occupation denominator

$5,871,698 is the Graduate Student occupation book in this extract — every cycle harvested for this string. 2014 contributes $540,715 (9.2%). The packet does not split the occupation total by party, and this page does not invent that split.

Graduate Student pages still include other years. The 2014 hub still includes other occupations. This join keeps both nouns in the sentence: Graduate Student and 2014. Occupation is the string on the receipt, not a Bureau of Labor Statistics code and not a license class.

What 37 Graduate Student donors represent

37 is a donor-record count. $540,715 is a dollar sum. $14,614 is their ratio. None of those is a unique-person census of the occupation. None is a median. None is a party split. The packet did not include those fields, so this page does not publish them.

Omitted from $540,715: independent expenditures, non-individual PAC spending as a separate total, unitemized tables below the itemization threshold, and USAspending obligations. Omitted from the occupation comparison: any occupation other than GRADUATE STUDENT, except as context that sibling strings exist.

Graduate Student’s share of its own occupation roll

9.2% of $5,871,698 is a defined slice. Other cycles hold $5,330,983. Put another way, about 9.2% of Graduate Student-coded itemized dollars in this aggregate were tagged cycle 2014, and the rest were not. Those percentages are $540,715 divided by $5,871,698 and $5,330,983 divided by $5,871,698. They are not shares of licensed workers, eligible voters, or USAspending.

Dollar share (9.2%) and donor volume (37 keys) are separate facts. This page does not publish a donor-count percentage as a substitute for the dollar share. Do not treat 9.2% as Graduate Student donors’ share of national itemized giving. Cycle-wide occupation mixes live on the cycle hub.

Using Graduate Student and 2014 links without mixing statutes

Citation template: occupation Graduate Student (GRADUATE STUDENT), election cycle 2014 (midterm), $540,715 in itemized individual contributions from 138 receipts and 37 donors, occupation total $5,871,698, share 9.2%, remainder $5,330,983, mean about $3,918 per gift and $14,614 per donor. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault occupation-cycle aggregates.

Then send the reader to the live 2014 election cycle page, the Graduate Student donations hub, all occupations, and all FEC ties. If you need named donors, those are other joins, not this file. This file stays aggregated. No donor names are supplied, and none are added.

Graduate Student next to other 2014 occupation strings

Other occupation strings in 2014 live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $540,715. Student, PhD Student, Researcher, and Teaching Assistant are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-year cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 37 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Graduate Student, cycle 2014, $540,715 itemized, 138 contributions, 37 donors, 9.2% of $5,871,698. GRADUATE STUDENT is the typed status. Student alone is a different occupation key. Degree program and campus are unpublished. Student, PhD Student, Researcher, and Teaching Assistant stay on other occupation pages. The 2014 election cycle hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

How many Graduate Student donors are in the 2014 cell?

37 donor keys sum to $540,715 on 138 contributions. That count is donor keys, not unique licensed workers. The arithmetic mean is about $14,614 per donor and $3,918 per contribution. Independent expenditures are not included. Named donors are not in these facts and are not invented here.

Is $5,871,698 the amount Graduate Student filers gave in 2014?

No. $5,871,698 is the occupation total across harvested cycles. Graduate Student’s 2014 cell is $540,715. Other cycles hold $5,330,983. Use the occupation hub for the all-cycle figure and this tie page for the 2014 slice only.

Why does this page exist if occupation and cycle hubs already exist?

Because two tables meet. The occupation hub answers Graduate Student across years ($5,871,698). The cycle hub answers 2014 across occupations. This tie answers only Graduate Student inside 2014: $540,715, 138 gifts, 37 donors. All FEC ties lists other such pairs.

What is omitted from $540,715?

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers as a separate table, USAspending awards, and receipts whose occupation string was not GRADUATE STUDENT. Sibling titles such as Student, PhD Student, Researcher, and Teaching Assistant are other rows. Source: FEC.gov occupation-cycle aggregates.