IT occupation political money — 2012 FEC cycle

The occupation–cycle join for IT

$169,278 is the overlap of occupation IT and cycle 2012 on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts. 267 contributions and 134 donors produced that sum. The occupation-side total $5,736,483 is every harvested cycle for IT, not a 2012-only figure restated. The 2012 IT cell is $169,278 from 267 receipts and 134 donors — a similar 3.0% share of $5,736,483 as the 2014 IT cell, but with more lines and more donor keys. The two-letter string is still not Software Engineer.

This page is not a restatement of either hub. The occupation hub drops the year. The cycle hub drops the title. The join keeps both. Information technology, IT manager, IT consultant, and software are other occupation keys if stored separately.

Lifetime $5,736,483 versus the 2012 cell

Subtract $169,278 from $5,736,483 and $5,567,205 remains. That remainder lives on the occupation hub. This page isolates 2012 so the lifetime figure is not mistaken for a two-year number.

IT is one-word self-reported industry/job string. $5,736,483 is not a professional-association budget. $169,278 is not a PAC disbursement.

What 267 receipts are not

267 is a Schedule A line count. It is not 134 one-time gifts. About 2.0 lines per donor is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window.

People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $169,278. Information technology, IT manager, IT consultant, and software are those nearby spellings when stored separately.

Correlation is not causation

A shared year and a shared occupation word are not a causal chain. $169,278 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that people listed as IT directed an election, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record.

Lifetime IT storage is $5,736,483. Subtract the 2012 cell and $5,567,205 remains. That remainder is 97.0% of the grouping. 3.0% is the 2012 share.

Contributor identities (134) are not a headcount of a profession. Repeat itemized gifts explain 267 lines from fewer identities. About 2.0 lines per donor is the mean on this packet.

Keeping IT 2012 distinct from the hubs

IT without 2012 is $5,736,483. 2012 without IT is the year hub. IT with 2012 is $169,278. Mixing those three sentences is the usual citation error this page exists to prevent.

Internal links: IT donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, All FEC ties. Anchors stay as supplied in the packet.

Open the 2012 election cycle to see every grouping that year. This file does not copy that list. IT remains one cell: $169,278, 267 contributions, 134 donors.

Federal award files can reuse famous names. Those files are not FEC itemized individual contributions. This join does not claim that $169,278 funded contracts or grants.

All occupations and All FEC ties

All occupations is the index of occupation hubs. All FEC ties is the index of two-dimension pages. Neither index adds dollars into $169,278. Use them to move, not to sum.

IT donations remains the occupation-side parent. The 2012 election cycle remains the year-side parent. This /ties/ path is the join explanation.

Information technology, IT manager, IT consultant, and software sit on other occupation pages if those words were typed. IT is the only occupation key used here.

The occupation string IT is filer-entered. FEC.gov does not recode it into a license class or a NAICS code. Neighboring titles remain other occupation hubs.

Cycle 2012 is a two-year FEC tag. Itemized receipts from both years of that window sit in $169,278 if they carried this occupation string.

Unique donors in this packet number 134. This file does not publish names for those keys. Repeat gifts explain why contributions (267) exceed donor keys.

Unitemized gifts never enter $169,278. Independent expenditures, committee transfers, and USAspending awards are other tables and other datasets.

Cite both sides of the join whenever the dollars are quoted: occupation IT and cycle 2012, then $169,278, source FEC.gov.

All occupations lists sibling titles without summing them into this cell. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Use those indexes to move, not to add dollar figures.

If a later harvest revises the occupation total $5,736,483 or the cycle cell $169,278, the live hubs and FEC.gov control. This JSON is a packet snapshot.

Questions

How much did IT-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $169,278 in itemized individual contributions for occupation IT in the 2012 FEC cycle, from 267 contributions and 134 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $5,736,483, so 2012 is 3.0% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

What fraction of IT dollars landed in 2012?

About 3.0%. $169,278 divided by $5,736,483 is the 2012 share for exact string IT. No national 2012 denominator is in the packet. The cell covers 267 contributions and 134 donors. Other years’ dollars are the $5,567,205 remainder. Occupation labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized individual receipts.

Does this count every it who donated in 2012?

No. The 134 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to IT in 2012. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $169,278 on 267 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate. Information technology, IT manager, IT consultant, and software are other keys if stored separately.

Where are the live IT and 2012 tables?

IT donations carries the $5,736,483 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle hub places IT 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 IT × 2012 intersection only.