Student political contributions from New Jersey

Student and New Jersey as a status-stamp join

Occupation STUDENT and donor state NJ produce $2,485,660, 6,515 contributions, and 377 donors. The occupation hub is $142,935,090, 226,355 contributions, and 12,200 donors. Dollar, contribution, and donor shares cluster within a few points (1.7%, 2.9%, 3.1%). New Jersey tracks the national Student mix rather than concentrating one of the three measures. New Jersey Student donor share sits above dollar share on a one-word status stamp.

Student is a one-word status stamp as typed, not a Graduate Student recode. Nearby strings — GRADUATE STUDENT, COLLEGE STUDENT, LAW STUDENT, and STUDENT INTERN — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $2,485,660 or $142,935,090. Virginia Student in this slice is a different state filter on the same STUDENT string; do not add the two state totals on this New Jersey page. Lawyer in New Jersey is a different occupation.

Three hundred seventy-seven New Jersey donors produced 6,515 contributions, about 17.3 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 18.6 rows per donor nationally (226,355 contributions from 12,200 donors). Mean dollars per donor in this New Jersey cell are about $6,593, versus about $11,716 across the occupation. Those ratios are arithmetic on the six packet numbers, not a gift-size ranking of influence.

STUDENT versus Graduate Student and Law Student

STUDENT is filer-entered. The FEC file does not verify enrollment, a named campus, or a New Jersey residency for schooling. The national grouping is 12,200 donors, 226,355 contributions, and $142,935,090.

226,355 contributions from 12,200 donors shows repeat itemization nationwide. New Jersey’s 6,515 contributions from 377 donors is the NJ-coded piece. This page does not split those rows by cycle, employer, or recipient committee. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to New Jersey.

Three hundred seventy-seven New Jersey donors on the student key

Three hundred seventy-seven New Jersey donors produced 6,515 contributions totaling $2,485,660. Donor state NJ is the address on the record, not proof of a New Jersey professional license, and not a limit to New Jersey candidates. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The New Jersey campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to NJ. This join is only STUDENT. Subtract $2,485,660 from $142,935,090 and $140,449,430 remains coded Student in every other state combined (219,840 contributions, 11,823 donors). That remainder has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties.

Donor share above dollar share on a status stamp

This page does not measure student output, does not rank firms, and does not claim that Student-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. Not a New Jersey campus-enrollment extract, not a named-school roster, and not a financial-aid census.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names, license numbers, and employer strings are not in these six numbers. Donor state NJ is not recipient geography.

Student strings that remain unmerged

A unique-donor count is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total can hide that skew. Keeping $2,485,660, 6,515 contributions, and 377 donors on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the New Jersey dollars, or only the Student national total, drops a key.

Student donations holds the $142,935,090 national occupation total. New Jersey 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. GRADUATE STUDENT, COLLEGE STUDENT, LAW STUDENT, is a different occupation string if a filer used it.

This relationship is not a forecast and not a ranking of influence. Occupation does not cause contributions, and donor state does not cause recipient geography. Public records, two fields, one intersection. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates; occupation labels are filer-entered. Virginia Student in this slice is a different state filter on the same STUDENT string; do not add the two state totals on this New Jersey page. Lawyer in New Jersey is a different occupation.

Related FEC tables for Student and New Jersey

Student donations holds the $142,935,090 national occupation total. New Jersey 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.

Questions

How much have Student donors in New Jersey given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation Student and state New Jersey total $2,485,660, from 6,515 contributions and 377 donors. Nationwide, Student-coded receipts are $142,935,090 from 226,355 contributions and 12,200 donors. New Jersey is 1.7% of those dollars.

Does Student mean enrolled New Jersey college students?

Occupation is STUDENT and state is NJ. The FEC file does not confirm enrollment or a named campus. Graduate Student and Law Student are other occupation keys if filers used those longer labels. This New Jersey join does not recode them into STUDENT. Virginia Student is a sibling state filter in this slice.

What share of Student FEC money is from New Jersey?

1.7% of the $142,935,090 occupation total is in this New Jersey join ($2,485,660). New Jersey also accounts for 2.9% of contributions (6,515 of 226,355) and 3.1% of donors (377 of 12,200). Those three shares are computed from the packet facts only.

Does this money go to New Jersey candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is New Jersey. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $2,485,660 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions; occupation labels are filer-entered.