Laborer political contributions from Indiana

Laborer and Indiana as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation LABORER and donor state IN produce $146,968, 5,262 contributions, and 78 donors. The occupation hub is $11,579,166, 276,402 contributions, and 5,912 donors. Indiana’s dollar share is about 1.3%; contribution share about 1.9% (5,262 of 276,402); donor share about 1.3% (78 of 5,912). Seventy-eight Indiana donors are about 1.3% of 5,912 national donors; 5,262 contributions are about 1.9% of 276,402 national rows; dollars are about 1.3% of $11,579,166.

CONSTRUCTION, LABOR, and UNION MEMBER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this total. Do not stack LABORER with CONSTRUCTION or LABOR into a single Indiana professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

78 Indiana donors produced 5,262 contributions, about 67.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 46.8 rows per donor nationally (276,402 contributions from 5,912 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Indiana cell is about $28, against about $42 nationwide. Indiana’s 5,262 rows against $146,968 is a small-mean, high-repeat slice of one of the most contribution-heavy occupation buckets in this slice.

LABORER as a high-volume occupation label

LABORER is a filer-entered string. Two hundred seventy-six thousand four hundred two national contributions from 5,912 donors make LABORER an unusually row-heavy bucket. The $11,579,166 national total is LABORER only. 5,912 donors produced 276,402 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 276,402 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Indiana (IN). This page does not split those rows by local or employer. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Indiana.

Indiana on the state side

78 Indiana donors produced 5,262 contributions totaling $146,968. Donor state IN is the address on the record, not proof of a Indiana license, and not a limit to Indiana candidates. IN is the address on the itemized record, not proof of an Indiana union local, and not a map of which campaigns received the $146,968.

The Indiana campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to IN. This join is only LABORER. The Laborer occupation hub without Indiana still holds about 98.7% of the $11,579,166. Indiana’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to IN. LABORER is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count union members, rank locals, or claim that Laborer-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. A high contribution count can be many small itemized PAC-channel gifts. The file still reports them as individual contributions with occupation LABORER.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. LABORER is not an LM-2 extract. Donor state IN is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Local numbers are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Laborer filter

Subtract the Indiana dollars on this page from the national LABORER occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded LABORER in every other state combined. That remainder ($11,432,198) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 78 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 5,262 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $146,968 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Indiana dollars, or only the LABORER national total, drops a key. Seventy-eight donors producing 5,262 contributions totaling $146,968 is the fact to keep next to the dollar headline.

Related tables

Laborer donations holds the $11,579,166 national occupation total. Indiana campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. LABORER’s national contribution count (276,402) is the volume context for Indiana’s 5,262 rows.

Questions

How much have Laborer donors in Indiana given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation LABORER and state Indiana total $146,968, from 5,262 contributions and 78 donors. Nationwide, LABORER-coded receipts are $11,579,166 from 276,402 contributions and 5,912 donors. Indiana is about 1.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Why are there so many contributions from so few donors?

Seventy-eight Indiana donors produced 5,262 itemized rows totaling $146,968. A contribution count can be many small itemized lines from repeat donors. Unitemized amounts are omitted. Occupation is LABORER; state is IN. The 78 Indiana donors used occupation LABORER and state IN. Filers who wrote CONSTRUCTION or LABOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Laborer FEC money is from Indiana?

About 1.3% of the $11,579,166 occupation total is in this Indiana join ($146,968). Indiana also accounts for about 1.9% of contributions (5,262 of 276,402) and about 1.3% of donors (78 of 5,912). About 1.3% of dollars and about 1.9% of contributions (5,262 of 276,402).

Does this money go to Indiana candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Indiana. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $146,968 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to IN; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.