Scientist political contributions from New Jersey

Scientist and New Jersey as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SCIENTIST and donor state NJ produce $1,044,089, 5,236 contributions, and 163 donors. The occupation hub is $26,806,625, 166,337 contributions, and 4,567 donors. New Jersey’s dollar share is about 3.9%; contribution share about 3.1% (5,236 of 166,337); donor share about 3.6% (163 of 4,567). One hundred sixty-three New Jersey donors are about 3.6% of 4,567 national donors; 5,236 contributions are about 3.1% of 166,337 national rows; dollars are about 3.9% of $26,806,625.

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, CHEMIST, and RESEARCHER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Scientist total. Do not stack SCIENTIST with RESEARCH SCIENTIST or CHEMIST into a single New Jersey professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

163 New Jersey donors produced 5,236 contributions, about 32.1 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 36.4 rows per donor nationally (166,337 contributions from 4,567 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this New Jersey cell is about $199, against about $161 nationwide. New Jersey’s about 3.9% share of $26,806,625 from 163 people is a many-person slice of a 166,337-row occupation.

SCIENTIST as a one-word professional string

SCIENTIST is a filer-entered string. The FEC file does not verify a PhD, a lab, or a discipline. The word on the form is the filter. The $26,806,625 national total is SCIENTIST only. 4,567 donors produced 166,337 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 166,337 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to New Jersey (NJ). Four thousand five hundred sixty-seven national donors make this a many-person bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state NJ.

New Jersey on the state side

163 New Jersey donors produced 5,236 contributions totaling $1,044,089. Donor state NJ is the address on the record, not proof of a New Jersey license, and not a limit to New Jersey candidates. NJ is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a New Jersey lab, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,044,089.

The New Jersey campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to NJ. This join is only SCIENTIST. The Scientist occupation hub without New Jersey still holds about 96.1% of the $26,806,625. New Jersey’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to NJ. SCIENTIST is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not count lab employees, merge chemist dollars, or claim that Scientist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SCIENTIST is not RESEARCH SCIENTIST even when filers meant a bench role.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SCIENTIST is not an NIH or NSF personnel extract. Donor state NJ is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Scientist filter

Subtract the New Jersey dollars on this page from the national SCIENTIST occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SCIENTIST in every other state combined. That remainder ($25,762,536) 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 163 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 5,236 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,044,089 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the New Jersey dollars, or only the SCIENTIST national total, drops a key. One hundred sixty-three donors producing 5,236 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,044,089 headline.

Related tables

Scientist donations holds the $26,806,625 national occupation total. New Jersey 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. New Jersey Administrator and New Jersey CFO are different occupation-state ties.

Questions

How much have Scientist donors in New Jersey given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SCIENTIST and state New Jersey total $1,044,089, from 5,236 contributions and 163 donors. Nationwide, SCIENTIST-coded receipts are $26,806,625 from 166,337 contributions and 4,567 donors. New Jersey is about 3.9% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this include chemists and research scientists?

Not automatically. Occupation is the string SCIENTIST. CHEMIST and RESEARCH SCIENTIST sit in other hubs if those strings exist. State is NJ. The 163 New Jersey donors used occupation SCIENTIST and state NJ. Filers who wrote RESEARCH SCIENTIST or RESEARCHER may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Scientist FEC money is from New Jersey?

About 3.9% of the $26,806,625 occupation total is in this New Jersey join ($1,044,089). New Jersey also accounts for about 3.1% of contributions (5,236 of 166,337) and about 3.6% of donors (163 of 4,567). About 3.9% of dollars from 163 of 4,567 donors and 5,236 of 166,337 contributions.

Does this money go to New Jersey candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is New Jersey. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,044,089 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to NJ; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.