Self Employed political contributions from Minnesota

Self Employed and Minnesota as overlapping FEC fields

Occupation SELF EMPLOYED and donor state MN produce $1,554,661, 2,145 contributions, and 103 donors. The occupation hub is $36,457,822, 169,112 contributions, and 7,177 donors. Minnesota’s dollar share is about 4.3%; contribution share about 1.3% (2,145 of 169,112); donor share about 1.4% (103 of 7,177). One hundred three Minnesota donors are about 1.4% of 7,177 national donors in this bucket, while 2,145 contributions are about 1.3% of 169,112 national rows. Dollar share (about 4.3%) runs ahead of both headcount shares.

OWNER, ENTREPRENEUR, and BUSINESS OWNER, if used, sit in other hubs and should not be added to this Self Employed total. Do not stack SELF EMPLOYED with OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR into a single Minnesota professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

103 Minnesota donors produced 2,145 contributions, about 20.8 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 23.6 rows per donor nationally (169,112 contributions from 7,177 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Minnesota cell is about $725, against about $216 nationwide. Minnesota’s about 4.3% share of $36,457,822 from 103 people is a larger-mean slice of a high-row occupation, not a small-business census.

SELF EMPLOYED as a longer occupation label

SELF EMPLOYED is a filer-entered string. The grouping is SELF EMPLOYED as typed. Exact self, unemployed, and homemaker are different placeholders and are not this hub. The FEC file does not verify a sole-proprietor registration. The $36,457,822 national total is SELF EMPLOYED only. 7,177 donors produced 169,112 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 169,112 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Minnesota (MN). One hundred sixty-nine thousand one hundred twelve national contributions make this a high-frequency bucket. This tie asks how much of that labeled money also carries donor state MN.

Minnesota on the state side

103 Minnesota donors produced 2,145 contributions totaling $1,554,661. Donor state MN is the address on the record, not proof of a Minnesota license, and not a limit to Minnesota candidates. MN is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Minnesota business license, and not a map of which campaigns received the $1,554,661.

The Minnesota campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MN. This join is only SELF EMPLOYED. The Self Employed occupation hub without Minnesota still holds about 95.7% of the $36,457,822. Minnesota’s state hub includes every other occupation coded to MN. SELF EMPLOYED is only this filter.

What the join is not

This page does not merge OWNER dollars, treat the string as unemployed, or claim that Self Employed-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. SELF EMPLOYED is not ENTREPRENEUR even when filers meant a one-person shop. It is also not the junk label exact self.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. SELF EMPLOYED is not a sole-proprietor registry. Donor state MN is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Employer names and NAICS codes are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Self Employed filter

Subtract the Minnesota dollars on this page from the national SELF EMPLOYED occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded SELF EMPLOYED in every other state combined. That remainder ($34,903,161) 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 103 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 2,145 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,554,661 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Minnesota dollars, or only the SELF EMPLOYED national total, drops a key. One hundred three donors producing 2,145 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,554,661 headline.

Related tables

Self Employed donations holds the $36,457,822 national occupation total. Minnesota 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. Illinois also has a Self Employed occupation-state tie with different facts.

Questions

How much have Self Employed donors in Minnesota given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation SELF EMPLOYED and state Minnesota total $1,554,661, from 2,145 contributions and 103 donors. Nationwide, SELF EMPLOYED-coded receipts are $36,457,822 from 169,112 contributions and 7,177 donors. Minnesota is about 4.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Is Self Employed the same as unemployed or exact self?

No. This hub is the occupation string SELF EMPLOYED. Exact self, unemployed, and homemaker are different placeholders. State is MN. The 103 Minnesota donors used occupation SELF EMPLOYED and state MN. Filers who wrote OWNER or ENTREPRENEUR may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Self Employed FEC money is from Minnesota?

About 4.3% of the $36,457,822 occupation total is in this Minnesota join ($1,554,661). Minnesota also accounts for about 1.3% of contributions (2,145 of 169,112) and about 1.4% of donors (103 of 7,177). Dollar share (about 4.3%) runs ahead of donor share (about 1.4%).

Does this money go to Minnesota candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Minnesota. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,554,661 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MN; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.