Scientist donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

Scientist × 2014

SCIENTIST plus cycle 2014 equals $800,590. That figure is the harvested sum of itemized individual contributions in which the occupation field matched this string and the two-year federal election cycle was 2014. Researcher, research scientist, chemist, and biologist are other keys if those words appear. This join does not recode the label into an NSF scientist census, a PhD-holder file, or a lab payroll. Other cycle amounts are not fields in this packet.

Parent hubs: Scientist donations at /occupations/scientist/ and the 2014 election cycle at /election-cycles/2014/. All occupations lists neighboring titles. All FEC ties keeps each occupation-year cell on its own path so a reader can move without mixing $800,590 into another year or another string. Do not add those parent pages into this cell.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Scientist in 2014 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $800,590. Discipline, academic versus industry versus government labs is unpublished for Scientist in 2014. The occupation page and the 2014 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees.

SCIENTIST as a one-word occupation

$26.8 million ($26,806,625) belongs to the exact string SCIENTIST across harvested cycles. It is not an NSF scientist census, a PhD-holder file, or a lab payroll. People who wrote nearby wording — researcher, research scientist, chemist, and biologist — sit in other rows if the characters differ. The 2014 slice is 3.0% of that title bucket. Share of SCIENTIST is not share of all 2014 receipts.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $800,590. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $26,806,625. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Scientist donations and the live 2014 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 $800,590.

1,428 scientist receipts in a midterm

501 donors and 1,428 receipts — about 2.9 lines per donor. Mean per receipt about $561; mean per donor about $1,598. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income. 501 donors makes this a mid-size occupation-cycle cell. No median is published in this packet.

Repeat gifts add receipts. 1,428 is a line count, not 501 one-time gifts; about two lines per donor, which is consistent with repeat gifts inside the same two-year window. Discipline, academic versus industry versus government labs is not encoded in the occupation string. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by SCIENTIST. People who left occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $800,590.

Generic scientist versus discipline keys and PACs

Cite $800,590 as Scientist in 2014. Cite $26,806,625 as this title’s occupation total. Do not add university and industry PAC filings to either figure. Those filings are committee reports. Mixing PAC spending with $800,590 would blend FEC tables. All occupations lists neighboring titles so a searcher can open the other string’s cycle cell rather than rescale 3.0%.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and election cycle. This join does not recode SCIENTIST 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 midterm-year total does not prove the occupation’s motives, and it does not attach these gifts to any federal spending dataset.

How to cite scientist money in 2014

A clean footnote names occupation SCIENTIST, election cycle 2014, $800,590 in itemized individual contributions, 1,428 receipts, and 501 donors on FEC.gov. Keep the itemized word. Mean dollars remain about $561 per line and $1,598 per donor in the cell. If the live Scientist donations overlay has refreshed, quote the overlay. Do not treat 1,428 as unique workers in the trade.

This URL exists because two filters meet. Scientist donations rolls every cycle into one SCIENTIST running total. The 2014 election cycle rolls every occupation into one 2014 total. Only the Scientist × 2014 overlay applies both filters, which is why this page cites 1,428 receipts and $800,590. All FEC ties is the directory of other occupation-cycle cells.

Questions

How much did scientist filers donate in 2014?

Filers who listed Scientist itemized $800,590 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 1,428 receipts and 501 donors. That is 3.0% of $26,806,625 under SCIENTIST. Researcher, research scientist, chemist, and biologist are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Does this include university or industry PACs?

No. $800,590 is individual contributions tagged Scientist in 2014. University and industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $800,590 would blend FEC tables. See Scientist donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Scientist in 2014 is $800,590 on 1,428 receipts from 501 donors.

Are scientist labels standardized on FEC forms?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses SCIENTIST. Researcher, research scientist, chemist, and biologist are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into an NSF scientist census, a PhD-holder file, or a lab payroll. Cite $800,590 for this title in 2014 on 1,428 receipts from 501 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Scientist donations ($26.8 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $800,590 from 1,428 receipts and 501 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Scientist in 2014.