Campaign Expenditures in the United States, 1989-1990 : Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Data / Federal Election Commission.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9775.

ICPSR ; 9775

Campaign Expenditures in the United States Series ; 9775

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campaign funds--United States--Statistics.

Campaign funds.

United States--Politics and government--1989-1993.

United States.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Second ICPSR Release.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

These data are made available by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and are taken directly from campaign finance reports filed by candidates, political committees, and others required to file under the federal election laws. The files are essentially copies of the FEC's on-line computer files for the 1989-1990 election cycle. The Candidate Master Data file (Part 1) contains a record for each registered candidate for federal office. It includes the candidate's name, address, party affiliation, incumbent/challenger status, identification number of the principal campaign committee, office sought, and election year. The Committee Master Data file (Part 2) contains a record for each registered committee for federal office. Information provided includes the committee's identification number, name, address, treasurer's name, committee designation and type, party affiliation, report filing frequency, special interest group category and connected organization's name, and multicandidate committee status. The Itemized Individual Contribution File (Part 3) contains a record for each candidate and his or her committee, other political committees, and persons making independent expenditures. Itemized receipt and disbursement information presented in the file includes the filer identification number, amendment and primary-general indicators, report and transaction types, address, occupation, transaction date, and transaction amount. The Itemized PAC Contribution File (Part 4) contains one record for each type of contributor for each reporting period. Information included in this file covers the type and year of the report, the time period covered by the report, total contributions, net contributions, total contribution refunds, net operating expenditures, cash on hand, debts and obligations owed by and to th... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09775

Contents:

Part 1: Candidate Master Data; Part 2: Committee Master Data; Part 3: Itemized Individual Contribution File; Part 4: Itemized PAC Contribution File; Part 5: Detailed Report File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61164181

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.