DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08158.v1
title: Campaign Expenditures in the United States, 1977-1978 and 1979-1980
title: Version 1

description: This data collection offers detailed tabulations of 
 political campaign expenditures and contributions. Party and non-party 
 committee information provided in parts 1-8 includes the committee name 
 and special interest group designation, gross receipts, transfers, 
 loans, both cash and in-kind contributions, gross disbursements, debts, 
 contributions to House, Senate, and Presidential candidates, and 
 expenditures made on behalf of those candidates. For parts 9 and 10, 
 the House and Senate files, data are supplied on candidate name, 
 incumbency status, party, receipts, transfers, disbursements, number 
 and dollar amounts of individual contributions, contributions from 
 major parties, from corporations, and from labor, independent 
 expenditures for and against the candidate, and percentage of the 
 November 1980 general election vote received. Parts 11 and 12, the 
 Presidential Pre-Nomination Campaigns files, contain data on candidate 
 name and party, total receipts, transfers, exempt fundraising, federal 
 matching funds, contributions from candidate and other sources, 
 independent expenditures for and against the candidate, debts, and 
 total expenditures made in each state by candidates receiving federal 
 matching funds. Part 13 specifies for each state the legal spending 
 limit in 1980 for candidates eligible to receive federal matching 
funds.
description: Complete information is provided for all members of the 
 sampling universe. An exception occurs in the "party committee" files 
 which contain data for only the Democratic and Republican parties 
 rather than for all party committees registered with the Federal 
Election Commission.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: 1977-1978: Party Spread Data
DS2: 1977-1978: Party Crosstabs File
DS3: 1977-1978: Non-party Spread Data
DS4: 1977-1978: Non-party Crosstabs File
DS5: 1979-1980: Party Spread Data
DS6: 1979-1980: Party Crosstabs File
DS7: 1979-1980: Non-party Spread Data
DS8: 1979-1980: Non-party Crosstabs File
DS9: 1979-1980: House and Senate Spread Data
DS10: 1979-1980: House and Senate Crosstabs File
DS11: 1979-1980: Presidential Pre-nomination Spread Data
DS12: 1979-1980: Presidential Pre-nomination Crosstabs File
DS13: 1979-1980: Legal Campaign Spending Limits by State Data
description: Parts 1-8: Party and non-party political committees 
 registered with the Federal Election Commission. Parts 9 and 10: 
 Campaigns of all individuals who have registered under the Federal 
 Election Campaign Act as 1979 or 1980 candidates for the federal 
 offices of United States Senator or United States Representative, or 
 who have been certified by the appropriate state authorities as 
 official Senate or House candidates in a 1979 or 1980 primary, runoff, 
 convention/caucus, or general election but who have not registered as 
 candidates under the Act. Parts 11 and 12: Campaigns of the sixteen 
 major and minor party Presidential candidates who reported total 
 receipts or total disbursements in excess of $100,000 in connection 
 with their pre-nomination campaigns. Part 13: All states, the District 
 of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and United States 
territories and possessions.
description: The six "spread" files in this collection include one 
 record for each campaign or committee while the six "crosstabs" files 
may contain more than one record for each campaign or committee.