Oil Producer (occupation) and the 2014 FEC cycle

Oil Producer is one axis; 2014 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of Oil Producer and not a restatement of 2014. It is the cell where they meet: $415,780, 221 contributions, 68 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the occupation side, Oil Producer is self-reported occupation or industry word. On the cycle side, 2014 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $415,780.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $7,725,244 is the lifetime Oil Producer bucket. The 2014 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $415,780.

2014 is not the whole Oil Producer story

Oil Producer across all cycles is $7,725,244. Oil Producer in 2014 is $415,780 — about 5.4%. The gap is $7,309,464. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2014 overlay still sees $415,780 for this string, not $7,725,244. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $415,780. 2014 holds $415,780 of $7,725,244 for this string — about 5.4%. Other cycles hold $7,309,464 (94.6%). Folding those other cycles into a 2014 citation would misstate the record by $7,309,464.

What 68 unique donors are not

68 unique donors are not a census of Oil Producer. They are the identities attached to 221 itemized rows that summed to $415,780. Mean gift $1,881; mean per donor $6,114; about 3.2 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $7,725,244 nor $415,780 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 221 itemized contributions from 68 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 68 identities.

How FEC cycle 2014 works on this join

Cycle 2014 is the second key in the join. Combined with OIL PRODUCER, it produces $415,780. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of Oil Producer. The 2014 hub without Oil Producer is a different page. The Oil Producer hub without 2014 is a different page. Only the overlap is $415,780.

Outside $415,780: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $415,780: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $415,780: itemized individual receipts matching OIL PRODUCER in cycle 2014.

The page is self-reported occupation or industry word, not an oil-and-gas PAC, a NAICS extraction rollup, or a named producer as a separate employer key. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported occupation text splits across spellings. OIL PRODUCER is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $415,780 or $7,725,244.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If Oil Producer 2014 on the site shows a different total than $415,780, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: OIL PRODUCER × 2014 = $415,780, 221 contributions, 68 donors, 5.4% of $7,725,244. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use Oil Producer 2014 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $415,780, 221, 68, 5.4% of $7,725,244. Restating the join without new numbers: Oil Producer in 2014 is $415,780 from 221 itemized individual contributions and 68 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,725,244 across cycles, so 2014 is about 5.4% and other windows hold $7,309,464 (94.6%). The grouping is self-reported occupation or industry word, not an oil-and-gas PAC, a NAICS extraction rollup, or a named producer as a separate employer key. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $1,881; mean per donor about $6,114; about 3.2 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $415,780.

Questions

How much did Oil Producer donors give in 2014?

$415,780 is the itemized-individual total for OIL PRODUCER in 2014. Volume: 221 contributions, 68 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $415,780, 221 contributions, and 68 donors in the Oil Producer × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,725,244.

What share of Oil Producer FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $415,780 of the $7,725,244 stored for Oil Producer, roughly 5.4%. The leftover $7,309,464 is other windows on the Oil Producer hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $415,780, 221 contributions, and 68 donors in the Oil Producer × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,725,244.

Is Oil Producer a NAICS energy code?

It is form text, not a license file. FEC.gov aggregated $415,780 for OIL PRODUCER in 2014 (221 contributions, 68 donors). Related occupation strings are not merged. FEC.gov is the source for $415,780, 221 contributions, and 68 donors in the Oil Producer × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,725,244.

Where is the overlay for the Oil Producer 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Oil Producer 2014, Oil Producer, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $415,780 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $415,780, 221 contributions, and 68 donors in the Oil Producer × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,725,244.