Retail occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Retail as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation RETAIL and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $471,822, 488 contributions, and 205 donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Retailer, retail owner, retail manager, and store owner are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into a BLS retail-employment census, a chain-store roster, or a retailer PAC. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet except as the remainder on the occupation hub.

Parent hubs: Retail donations at /occupations/retail/ and the 2012 election cycle at /election-cycles/2012/. All occupations at /occupations/ lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties at /ties/ keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $471,822 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Retail in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $471,822. Owner versus manager versus associate, and product line is unpublished for Retail in 2012. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees. Hundreds of donor keys and under five hundred receipts is a mid-small industry-word cell, not a named-chain headcount.

RETAIL as an industry word, not store owner

$5.0 million ($5,030,135) belongs to the exact string RETAIL across harvested cycles. It is not a BLS retail-employment census, a chain-store roster, or a retailer PAC. People who wrote nearby wording — retailer, retail owner, retail manager, and store owner — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2012 slice is 9.4% of that title bucket ($471,822 of $5,030,135). Share of RETAIL is not share of all 2012 receipts. The remainder, $4,558,313, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $471,822. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $5,030,135. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Retail donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot. Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $471,822.

205 retail donors and 488 receipts in 2012

205 donors and 488 receipts — about 2.4 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $967; mean per donor about $2,302. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. Hundreds of donor keys and under five hundred receipts is a mid-small industry-word cell, not a named-chain headcount. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 488 is a line count, not 205 one-time gifts. Owner versus manager versus associate, and product line is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by RETAIL. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $471,822. Retail Owner and Store Owner are other keys when those words appear. Do not fold them into this one-word RETAIL cell.

Industry label versus retailer PACs

Cite $471,822 as Retail in 2012. Cite $5,030,135 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add retailer-association PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $471,822 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 9.4%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode RETAIL into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a license class. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string. Correlation is not causation: a presidential-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset. USAspending.gov awards are a different ledger. This page does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants.

How to cite Retail money in 2012

A clean footnote names occupation RETAIL, election cycle 2012, $471,822 in itemized individual contributions, 488 receipts, and 205 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $967 per line and $2,302 per donor in the cell. If the live Retail donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 488 as unique workers in the trade named by RETAIL.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Retail donations rolls every cycle into one RETAIL running total. The 2012 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2012 total. Only the Retail × 2012 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 488 receipts and $471,822. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Occupation hub, 2012 hub, and Retailer as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $4,558,313 outside 2012. Most of the $5,030,135 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Retail Owner and Store Owner are other keys when those words appear. Do not fold them into this one-word RETAIL cell. Gifts per donor in 2012 average about 2.4. That ratio is 488 divided by 205, not a measure of turnout. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Retail filers donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Retail itemized $471,822 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 488 receipts and 205 donors. That is 9.4% of $5,030,135 under RETAIL. Retailer, retail owner, retail manager, and store owner are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include retailer-association PACs?

No. $471,822 is individual contributions tagged Retail in 2012. Retailer-association PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $471,822 would blend FEC tables. See Retail donations or the 2012 election cycle hub for committee names. Retail in 2012 is $471,822 on 488 receipts from 205 donors.

Are Retail labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses RETAIL. Retailer, retail owner, retail manager, and store owner are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a BLS retail-employment census, a chain-store roster, or a retailer PAC. Cite $471,822 for this title in 2012 on 488 receipts from 205 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Retail donations ($5.0 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $471,822 from 488 receipts and 205 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Retail in 2012.