Use with caution. Please examine documentation carefully to understand file structures. 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.
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. 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.