Self Employed occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Self Employed receipts isolated to 2008

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation SELF EMPLOYED and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $2,005,865 ($2.0 million), 2,145 contributions, and 1,013 donors. 5.5% of Self Employed occupation dollars ($36,457,822) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. SELF EMPLOYED is a work-status string, not a sector. A donor who typed a slash pair such as Self Employed / Physician sits on a different key. LobbyVault does not recode OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR into this 2008 occupation cell.

$36,457,822 is the Self Employed all-cycle total

On the occupation side, $36,457,822 is the Self Employed total across cycles. Sibling labels (SELF, SELF-EMPLOYED, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR) stay on other pages. Self Employed is not a Census self-employment count, a sole-proprietor PAC, or an IRS Schedule C universe.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $36,457,822. The Self Employed donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $2,005,865 is a slice of. Dividing $2,005,865 by 2,145 receipts yields about $935 per line; dividing by 1,013 donors yields about $1,980 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

2008 cycle dollars versus the Self Employed occupation total

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Self Employed. $2,005,865 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

2,145 contributions from 1,013 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.1 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $935; mean per donor about $1,980. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,005,865. Three numbers define the Self Employed × 2008 cell: dollars $2,005,865, contribution rows 2,145, unique donors 1,013. Share of occupation dollars is 5.5% of $36,457,822.

Public-record limits for Self Employed in 2008

Matching Self Employed with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Self Employed donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a Census self-employment count, a sole-proprietor PAC, or an IRS Schedule C universe.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SELF EMPLOYED is a work-status string, not a sector. A donor who typed a slash pair such as Self Employed / Physician sits on a different key. LobbyVault does not recode OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR into this 2008 occupation cell. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $2,005,865 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Self Employed donations hub is $36,457,822; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Self Employed and 2008 tables

Self Employed donations holds the $36,457,822 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Self Employed. All occupations places SELF EMPLOYED beside other titles without merging sibling strings (SELF, SELF-EMPLOYED, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,005,865 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Self Employed dollars ($36,457,822). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,005,865, 2,145 contributions, 1,013 donors, 5.5% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Self Employed 2008 versus other LobbyVault cuts

Occupation-by-state joins for Self Employed are different pages and different dollars. This tie is occupation-by-cycle. $2,005,865 is not a state total and not a committee total.

All FEC ties is the inventory for those other pairs. All occupations is the inventory for titles. Neither page should be summed into $2,005,865.

Questions

How much did Self Employed-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Self Employed grouping’s 2008 cell is $2,005,865 in itemized individual contributions, from 2,145 contributions and 1,013 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $36,457,822 all-cycle occupation total.

Does Self Employed include every sole proprietor?

It includes only the occupation string SELF EMPLOYED as typed. Other self-employment spellings are other pages. The 2008 cycle filter on Self Employed is $2,005,865, 2,145 contributions, and 1,013 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $36,457,822. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Self Employed FEC money fell in 2008?

About 5.5%. $2,005,865 divided by $36,457,822 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 94.5% ($34,451,957) on the occupation hub. See the Self Employed occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Self Employed 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $2,005,865 is itemized receipts tagged SELF EMPLOYED in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.