Campaign expenditures in the United States, 1981-1982
By: principal investigator, Federal Election Commission
Series: ICPSR -- 8238; ICPSR (Series) -- 8238
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Campaign funds; Statistics
Description: According to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as amended), political party and non-party committees must limit their campaign spending and report their expenditures to the F.E.C. The data collected by the F.E.C. outline the party and non-party committee expenditures for each candidate supported and also present the data by candidate and House or Senate position sought. This collection contains data collected for the election cycle, 1981-82. The data are contained in six files. Party data are contained in two files: a spread file contains a record for each party committee in alphabetical order by committee ID number, a crosstabs file contains one or more records for each party committee organized first by committee ID number and then by candidate ID number. Non-Party data are also contained in two files: a spread file and a crosstabs file, both organized in the same manner as the Party files. House/Senate data are contained in two similar files: a spread file and a crosstabs file, organized in a similar manner as the Party and Non-party files. Candidates are designated by a Candidate ID number which includes the federal office sought (coded 'S' for Senate or 'H' for House) and the state in which the candidate has run.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1981-1982.

United States.

Party cross-tabs file: 1,976 records, logical record length of 106; Party spread file: 483 records, logical record length of 640; Non-party cross-tabs file: 95,304 records, logical record length of 106; Non-party spread file: 3,722 records, logical record length of 640; House/Senate cross-tabs file: 96,634 records, logical record length of 106; House/Senate spread file: 2,240 records, logical record length of 451.