Small Business Owner money in the 2012 cycle

Small Business Owner as occupation, 2012 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation SMALL BUSINESS OWNER and election cycle 2012. Matching rows sum to $1,092,731, 1,335 contributions, and 674 donors. SMALL BUSINESS OWNER in 2012 is a three-word self-description. FEC.gov does not apply an employee-count test. The occupation hub is $10,278,471 across every cycle in the aggregate. The 2012 cycle hub mixes every other occupation that used that year. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

2012’s dollar share is 10.6% ($1,092,731 of $10,278,471). The remainder, $9,185,740, sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. Hundreds of donor keys and more than a thousand lines is a broad owner-title cell in a presidential year. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,092,731.

The SMALL BUSINESS OWNER string across every cycle

$10,278,471 is the occupation-side denominator. It is not limited to 2012. Business Owner, Owner, and Entrepreneur are other occupation keys if stored separately. Adding those keys to $10,278,471 would be a researcher-built recode, not this table. Occupation labels are filer-entered on itemized individual receipts.

Open Small Business Owner donations for the $10,278,471 roll. Open the 2012 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

674 donors and a four-figure mean gift

Dividing $1,092,731 by 1,335 contributions yields about $819 per gift. Dividing by 674 donors yields about $1,621 per donor. Gifts per donor average about 2.0 (1,335 ÷ 674). Those ratios describe this string in 2012, not payroll at firms that employ people with similar titles.

674 is a donor-key count inside the occupation × cycle aggregate, not a headcount of everyone who held the job in 2012. Repeat itemization, couples filing separately, and people who used the string on some receipts but not others all move the 674 figure. The cycle hub still holds every other occupation’s 2012 receipts beside this cell. Business Owner without the word Small is a different key if stored separately. Keep the three-word label on these 2012 dollars.

What Small Business Owner dollars in 2012 are not

A 10.6% share of Small Business Owner-coded dollars from 2012 does not mean the occupation caused those gifts, and it does not mean people with that title funded a policy outcome. Occupation and cycle are reported together. The overlap is descriptive. Independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and unitemized gifts are out of scope.

Federal awards on USAspending.gov are a different ledger. This join does not claim that 2012 donations funded contracts or grants. Quote $1,092,731 as itemized individual receipts tagged SMALL BUSINESS OWNER in 2012, source FEC.gov, and stop there.

How to cite Small Business Owner × 2012

A complete claim names Small Business Owner and 2012, then $1,092,731, 1,335 contributions, 674 donors, and 10.6% of $10,278,471, source FEC.gov. Do not convert 674 keys into licensed or employed practitioners. Do not fold independent expenditures or USAspending awards into the cell. Keep both sides of the name—Small Business Owner and 2012—whenever the dollars are quoted. Mean gift $819 and mean per donor $1,621 travel with those counts; they do not travel with a licensing board.

Occupation hub, 2012 hub, and Owner as a sibling

The occupation hub still holds $9,185,740 outside 2012. Most of the $10,278,471 roll is not this cycle’s cell. This page isolates the overlap for readers who need both the title and the year, not either hub restated. Business Owner, Owner, and Entrepreneur are other occupation keys if stored separately. Those titles are not parents of SMALL BUSINESS OWNER on this page. Gifts per donor in 2012 average about 2.0. That ratio is 1,335 divided by 674, not a measure of turnout.

Questions

How much did Small Business Owner-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $1,092,731 in itemized individual contributions for occupation Small Business Owner in the 2012 FEC cycle, from 1,335 contributions and 674 donors. The occupation’s all-cycle total is $10,278,471, so 2012 is 10.6% of that roll. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Does this count every small business owner who donated in 2012?

No. The 674 donor keys are people whose itemized receipts grouped to SMALL BUSINESS OWNER in 2012. Filers who used a different title are other occupation rows. FEC.gov does not verify jobs. The cell totals $1,092,731 on 1,335 lines. Unitemized gifts never appear in this aggregate.

What share of Small Business Owner occupation money is the 2012 cycle?

10.6%: $1,092,731 of $10,278,471. The remaining $9,185,740 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. That share is $1,092,731 divided by $10,278,471, not a ranking of civic engagement and not a peak-year list. Other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that remainder.

Where are the live Small Business Owner and 2012 tables?

Small Business Owner donations carries the $10,278,471 occupation total. The 2012 election cycle hub places Small Business Owner beside other occupation strings that year. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Small Business Owner × 2012 intersection only.