Self Employed political contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle

Self Employed and the 2012 cycle as two FEC filters

Occupation SELF EMPLOYED and cycle 2012 produce $2,722,818, 2,583 contributions, and 1,196 donors. The occupation nationwide across cycles is $36,457,822. Dollar share for 2012 is 7.5%. 2,583 contributions from 1,196 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Contribution count is not a headcount of people who hold the job.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. 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 occupation. The 2012 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a presidential-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2010 or 2014 dollars into the 2012 total. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,722,818.

7.5% of $36,457,822 is $2,722,818. That arithmetic uses only the occupation total and the cycle total in this packet. It is not a forecast and not a party split. Recipient committees may be anywhere; cycle is the FEC even-year window, not the donor’s state.

Self Employed as an occupation string

Self Employed donations is the occupation hub: $36,457,822 across cycles from filers who typed SELF EMPLOYED on an itemized individual contribution. Sibling strings (SELF, SELF-EMPLOYED, OWNER, and ENTREPRENEUR) are not merged here. The occupation total is not a Census self-employment count, a sole-proprietor PAC, or an IRS Schedule C universe.

The 2012 cycle filter on Self Employed receipts

The 2012 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Self Employed. $2,722,818 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2012. It is not a 2010 or 2014 midterm-year filter.

2,583 contributions from 1,196 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,722,818, 2,583, and 1,196 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,722,818. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,722,818. Three numbers define the Self Employed × 2012 cell: dollars $2,722,818, contribution rows 2,583, unique donors 1,196. Share of occupation dollars is 7.5% of $36,457,822.

What the Self Employed–2012 join is not

Matching Self Employed with 2012 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 occupation. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text.

Linked Self Employed and 2012 pages

Self Employed donations holds the $36,457,822 occupation total. The 2012 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 $2,722,818 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Self Employed dollars ($36,457,822). Use the 2012 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,722,818, 2,583 contributions, 1,196 donors, 7.5% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Self Employed donations, the 2012 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Self Employed 2012 as a dollar-share slice

2012 accounts for 7.5% of the Self Employed occupation total ($2,722,818 of $36,457,822). Most Self Employed-coded dollars sit in other FEC cycles. $2.7 million is the same fact as $2,722,818 rounded to one decimal million, not a second extract. Do not add SELF dollars into $2,722,818.

Researchers who need employer text or recipient committees should leave this join and open the Self Employed donations table. The 2012 cycle page is the even-year inventory. FEC.gov remains the controlling filing if extracts diverge.

Questions

How much did Self Employed donors give in 2012?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SELF EMPLOYED in the 2012 cycle total $2,722,818, from 2,583 contributions and 1,196 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Self Employed-coded receipts are $36,457,822. 2012 is 7.5% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Self Employed 2012 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,722,818 or in the $36,457,822 occupation figure used here. It includes only the occupation string SELF EMPLOYED as typed. Other self-employment spellings are other pages. The 2012 join is $2,722,818 from 2,583 contributions and 1,196 donors.

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 2012 cycle filter on Self Employed is $2,722,818, 2,583 contributions, and 1,196 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $36,457,822. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 2,583 Self Employed contributions and 1,196 donors in 2012?

The 2012 join includes 2,583 itemized contributions from 1,196 donors totaling $2,722,818. 2,583 contributions from 1,196 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.