Researcher occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Why $638,964 is a join

The packet’s keys are literal: occupation string RESEARCHER, cycle 2012. Their product on FEC.gov individual-contribution aggregates is $638,964, from 931 contributions and 386 donors. No recipient list, party split, or PAC total is published here.

Treat the label as a one-word occupation string, not a lab or university census. Self-reported occupation fields are free text. Filers who wrote a longer title or a nearby word are counted elsewhere. This page does not merge those buckets.

$638,964 is smaller than $13,109,440 because other cycles exist, and it is not a share of national 2012 giving because this packet has no cycle-wide denominator. The join is the point.

Form text, not a license file

The Commission stores occupation as typed. RESEARCHER survived grouping as Researcher. That is not a census of practitioners. 386 unique donors in 2012 matched this string.

See the Researcher occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings. This tie keeps both filters on. The 4.9% ratio is $638,964 divided by $13,109,440. Other even-year joins for RESEARCHER are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $12,470,476. Citing 2012 as if it were the Researcher lifetime total would overstate this cell by $12,470,476.

How 386 donors produced 931 gifts

386 donors and 931 contributions are compatible because one identity can give more than once. The implied 2.4 gifts per donor is a mean. High-repeat filers would pull that mean up; one-time filers would pull it down. The packet does not split those groups.

$1,655 per donor and $686 per line are derived from $638,964. They are not contribution limits and not typical gift size if the distribution is skewed. A mean of $686 per itemized line and $1,655 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 931 contributions remaining larger than 386 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

Where $12,470,476 still sits

After this 2012 cell of $638,964, $12,470,476 of the Researcher grouping remains in other even-year windows. That remainder is 95.1% of $13,109,440. The 2012 page is not empty of other occupations; this file simply does not add them.

Percentages here use packet facts only. No national 2012 total is supplied, so no share of the election claim is possible. 4.9% is Researcher-internal. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $638,964 if they were itemized against RESEARCHER. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

What the Commission does not verify

FEC occupation fields are typed by filers. RESEARCHER is stored as written. The Commission does not verify licenses, current jobs, or professional status on this aggregate. Researcher here is a one-word occupation string, not a lab or university census.

PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other tables. USAspending obligations are another database entirely. $638,964 does not fund federal awards. Researcher as a one-word occupation string, not a lab or university census can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $638,964. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

Keeping Researcher 2012 distinct from the hubs

Researcher without 2012 is $13,109,440. 2012 without Researcher is the year hub. Researcher with 2012 is $638,964. Mixing those three sentences is the usual citation error this page exists to prevent.

Internal links: Researcher donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, All FEC ties. Anchors stay as supplied in the packet. Quote both keys: Researcher and 2012. Quote the dollars: $638,964. Quote the volume: 931 contributions, 386 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Researcher in 2012 is $638,964 from 931 itemized individual contributions and 386 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $13,109,440 across cycles, so 2012 is about 4.9% and other windows hold $12,470,476 (95.1%). The grouping is a one-word occupation string, not a lab or university census, not a researchers PAC, SCIENTIST as a neighboring key, or a named-institute page. 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 $686; mean per donor about $1,655; about 2.4 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $638,964.

Questions

How much did Researcher-labeled donors give in 2012?

Donors who listed Researcher reported $638,964 in the 2012 cycle on this aggregate — 931 contributions, 386 donors. The figure is not $13,109,440 and is not a named-recipient list. FEC.gov is the source for $638,964, 931 contributions, and 386 donors in the Researcher × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $13,109,440.

What share of Researcher FEC money fell in 2012?

4.9% of $13,109,440 is tagged 2012 ($638,964). That ratio uses only packet facts for RESEARCHER. It is not a share of all 2012 FEC receipts. FEC.gov is the source for $638,964, 931 contributions, and 386 donors in the Researcher × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $13,109,440.

Does Researcher mean academic scientists only?

The label is not NAICS and not a census. It is a one-word occupation string, not a lab or university census. 2012 money for this exact string is $638,964. SCIENTIST, RESEARCH SCIENTIST, and PROFESSOR remain other keys. FEC.gov is the source for $638,964, 931 contributions, and 386 donors in the Researcher × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $13,109,440.

Where is the overlay for Researcher in 2012?

Researcher donations is every cycle for the string. 2012 election cycle is every grouping that year. All occupations lists other titles. All FEC ties lists other intersections. Packet total $638,964. FEC.gov is the source for $638,964, 931 contributions, and 386 donors in the Researcher × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $13,109,440.