VP donations in the 2010 FEC cycle

Two letters, one 2010 cell

Occupation equals VP and cycle equals 2010: the overlap is $1,722,491. Vice President, EVP, SVP, and Executive Vice President are other keys. This join does not expand the abbreviation before aggregating.

Parent hubs: Vp donations (the occupation rollup) and the 2010 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps the two-letter cell distinct from spelled-out vice-president titles.

The occupation hub for VP lists $29.9 million ($29,934,385) under the exact string VP. The 2010 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2010, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for VP in 2010 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.7 million. The occupation page and the 2010 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A very short title string

$29.9 million ($29,934,385) under VP is large for a two-letter token because the abbreviation is common on forms. It is not a census of all vice presidents. People who spelled the title out are outside this occupation total.

The 2010 slice is 5.8% of the abbreviation’s harvested sum. That percentage is not VP’s share of all 2010 executive giving.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,722,491. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $29,934,385. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live VP donations and the live 2010 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,722,491. If a later harvest revises 2,046 or 992, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($29,934,385) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2,046 VP receipts in 2010

992 donors and 2,046 receipts — about 2.1 lines per donor — is a busy midterm abbreviation file. Mean per receipt about $842; mean per donor about $1,736. Busy is a line count. No median.

VP can mean corporate vice president, a bank title, or a shortcut a treasurer typed. This packet cannot tell which. $1.7 million follows the two letters in 2010.

2,046 is a receipt count. 992 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.7 million.

Do not expand VP in the citation

When citing $1,722,491, keep the letters VP. A headline that says vice president would describe a different, unmeasured set if the forms used other words. Do not add Executive Vice President dollars to this cell.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring executive strings.

Dividing $1,722,491 by 2,046 receipts yields about $842 per line. Dividing by 992 donors yields about $1,736 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Abbreviation limits

VP does not identify seniority, company, or whether the filer meant vice president at all. A volunteer who typed VP is in $1.7 million; a vice president who spelled the title is not.

No party split, no ranking of corporate ranks. 2,046 receipts and 992 donors are the volume facts for this join.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode VP into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did VP-occupation filers donate in 2010?

Filers who listed VP itemized $1,722,491 in FEC individual contributions in 2010, from 2,046 receipts and 992 donors. That is 5.8% of $29,934,385 under the two-letter key. Vice President spelled out and Executive Vice President are other occupation keys.

Is VP the same as Vice President in FEC data?

Not automatically. The Commission stores the occupation as typed. This join uses the two-letter abbreviation. Spelled-out titles and extra rank words (EVP, SVP) are other keys. Cite $1.7 million only for VP in 2010. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. VP in 2010 is $1,722,491 on 2,046 receipts from 992 donors.

Does this include corporate PACs?

No. $1,722,491 is individual contributions tagged VP. Company PACs file as committees. Employer is not in this packet. See Vp donations or the 2010 election cycle for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. VP in 2010 is $1,722,491 on 2,046 receipts from 992 donors.

What two tables does this page join?

The VP occupation hub ($29.9 million) and the 2010 election cycle. The overlap is $1,722,491 from 2,046 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring executive titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. VP in 2010 is $1,722,491 on 2,046 receipts from 992 donors.