Librarian political contributions from California

Librarian and California as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation LIBRARIAN and donor state CA produce $2,009,736, 29,633 contributions, and 284 donors. The occupation hub is $8,907,436, 96,223 contributions, and 1,794 donors. California’s dollar share is about 22.6%; contribution share about 30.8% (29,633 of 96,223); donor share about 15.8% (284 of 1,794). Two hundred eighty-four California donors are about 15.8% of 1,794 national donors; 29,633 contributions are about 30.8% of 96,223 national rows; dollars are about 22.6% of $8,907,436.

LIBRARY, EDUCATOR, and TEACHER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Librarian total. Do not stack LIBRARIAN with LIBRARY or EDUCATOR into a single California professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

284 California donors produced 29,633 contributions, about 104.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 53.6 rows per donor nationally (96,223 contributions from 1,794 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this California cell is about $68, against about $93 nationwide. California’s about 22.6% dollar share from 29,633 rows is a high-repeat slice of a 96,223-row occupation: many itemized rows per donor.

LIBRARIAN as a workplace-title string

LIBRARIAN is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify an MLS, a public-library payroll, or an academic appointment. The word on the form is the filter. The $8,907,436 national total is LIBRARIAN only. 1,794 donors produced 96,223 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 96,223 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to California (CA). One thousand seven hundred ninety-four national donors make LIBRARIAN a mid-size bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state CA.

California as the Librarian donor-state stamp

284 California donors produced 29,633 contributions totaling $2,009,736. Donor state CA is the address on the record, not proof of a California license, and not a limit to California candidates. CA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a California library, and not a map of which campaigns received the $2,009,736.

The California campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to CA. This join is only LIBRARIAN. The Librarian occupation hub without California still holds about 77.4% of the $8,907,436. California’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to CA. LIBRARIAN is only this filter.

What the Librarian–California join is not

This page does not count library staff, merge Teacher dollars, or claim that Librarian-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. LIBRARIAN is not TEACHER even when filers meant a public-institution job.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. LIBRARIAN is not a library-staff extract. Donor state CA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Library names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Librarian filter

Subtract the California dollars on this page from the national LIBRARIAN occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded LIBRARIAN in every other state combined. That remainder ($6,897,700) 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 284 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 29,633 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $2,009,736 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the California dollars, or only the LIBRARIAN national total, drops a key. Two hundred eighty-four donors producing 29,633 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $2,009,736 headline.

Related tables

Librarian donations holds the $8,907,436 national occupation total. California 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. Michigan Teacher and Maryland Teacher in this slice are other occupation-state pairs, not this Librarian cell.

Questions

How much have Librarian donors in California given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation LIBRARIAN and state California total $2,009,736, from 29,633 contributions and 284 donors. Nationwide, LIBRARIAN-coded receipts are $8,907,436 from 96,223 contributions and 1,794 donors. California is about 22.6% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these public-library employees?

The FEC file does not verify employer type. Occupation is LIBRARIAN and state is CA. Two hundred eighty-four California donors used that pair. The 284 California donors used occupation LIBRARIAN and state CA. Filers who wrote LIBRARY or EDUCATOR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Librarian FEC money is from California?

About 22.6% of the $8,907,436 occupation total is in this California join ($2,009,736). California also accounts for about 30.8% of contributions (29,633 of 96,223) and about 15.8% of donors (284 of 1,794). About 22.6% of dollars from 284 of 1,794 donors and 29,633 of 96,223 contributions.

Does this money go to California candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is California. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,009,736 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to CA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.