Student political money in the 2012 election cycle

Student meeting the 2012 election cycle

2012 is a presidential federal cycle on the FEC calendar. Intersecting the Student occupation grouping with that year produces $14,047,007, 6,035 lines, and 2,698 donor keys. Those three figures are the join. The occupation hub still holds $142,935,090 across all cycles in the aggregate. This page does not restate that hub without the year filter.

About $5,206 per donor ($14,047,007 ÷ 2,698) and about $2,328 per contribution ($14,047,007 ÷ 6,035) describe this string in 2012. Lines per donor average about 2.2 (6,035 ÷ 2,698). Those ratios are arithmetic on the packet, not typical gifts and not a unique-person audit. Repeat givers raise the line count.

The 2012 election-cycle hub places Student beside other occupation keys that year. Neither that hub nor this tie converts $14,047,007 into a civic-engagement score. Named employers who share a workplace with people in this cell sit in industry rows if the legal name was used instead of the occupation word.

9.8% of the Student all-cycle grouping

9.8% is $14,047,007 divided by $142,935,090. The leftover $128,888,083 sits in other cycles on the occupation hub. A 9.8% year share is a piece of this grouping’s recorded history, not a ranked list of peak years — other years’ amounts are not in this packet except as that residual.

Presidential solicitation volume can lift itemized counts. 6,035 lines still describe only receipts tagged Student in 2012. The packet does not publish committee names inside the cell; those live on the occupation and cycle overlays. Do not treat 9.8% as proof that 2012 was this occupation’s largest year in every dataset.

Student is self-reported, not an enrollment file

FEC.gov does not match occupation text to a registrar. STUDENT can include undergraduates, graduate students, adult learners, and people who typed the word while listing a parent as employer on another line. Campus jobs that used a university legal name sit in employer keys, not here.

TEACHER, PROFESSOR, and EDUCATION are other occupation strings. A student who typed the university as employer is usually out of this cell. This page does not estimate tuition or campus size. The Student grouping is a typed word on itemized receipts.

What Student money in this cycle is not

The cell is not a youth-vote poll, not a university PAC, and not a count of enrolled students. Contribution limits and bundling rules are not restated here. Independent expenditures about education bills are other FEC objects.

Federal student-aid and research awards on USAspending are a different dataset. This join does not claim that Student-coded gifts funded those awards. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Motive is outside the packet.

Pages that keep Student and 2012 apart

The Student occupation page holds $142,935,090 and other years. The 2012 election-cycle page holds that year’s occupation list. All occupations ranks neighboring job strings. All FEC ties lists other occupation–cycle pages so this cell is not mistaken for an industry–PAC join.

Keep both sides of the name — Student and 2012 — whenever $14,047,007 is quoted. Cite 6,035 contributions, 2,698 donors, 9.8% of $142,935,090, and FEC.gov. Do not convert 2,698 keys into licensed or enrolled people. Do not fold USAspending into the cell.

How to cite Student × 2012

A complete claim names Student and 2012, then $14,047,007, 6,035 contributions, 2,698 donors, and 9.8% of $142,935,090, source FEC.gov. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. Independent expenditures stay omitted. Federal awards that mention a similar profession stay omitted.

The 2,698-donor count is the net of filing choices in 2012: people who typed Student increased the cell; people who typed a firm name or a neighboring title reduced it. $14,047,007 and the 9.8% share travel with that net. They do not travel with a licensing board, a union roster, or a USAspending file. Quote the occupation hub for $142,935,090 and other cycles.

2012 remains a presidential federal cycle. That calendar fact does not add dollars. The join stops at itemized individual receipts tagged Student in 2012: $14,047,007 on 6,035 lines from 2,698 donors. About $2,328 per line and $5,206 per donor are means, not typical gifts. Repeat filers can sit in the 6,035 without raising unique people above 2,698.

Questions

How much did Student-tagged donors give in 2012?

The join records $14,047,007 in itemized individual contributions for Student in 2012, from 6,035 contributions and 2,698 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $142,935,090.

What share of the Student grouping is 2012?

9.8%: $14,047,007 of $142,935,090. Other years’ amounts are not listed in this packet except as the leftover $128,888,083 on the occupation hub. A year share is not a ranking of peak cycles.

Does this include people who listed a company instead of Student?

Usually not. Named firms are other industry keys. Neighboring titles are other occupation keys. This cell is the grouped Student string in 2012. Mixing keys would blur the 2,698-donor count.

Do Student donations fund federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. This tie reports only itemized individual receipts tagged Student in 2012: $14,047,007 across 6,035 contributions from 2,698 donors.