Campaign finance

campaign_itemizations

we work with partners to gather and process campaign finance data at the state and federal levels we then match that data to our people docid\ pki2wftcvogqghoyar1cp and elections docid 9ru8vxd4ditwriowunams datasets so we can make better targeting and messaging recommendations to matchbook users for stacks users, these connections enable numerous additional use cases – such as forecasting and better informed donor prospecting this table includes itemization level data – typically individual contributions from voters to specfic campaigns, but also including loans, candidate self funding, and transfers schema column description transaction id unique id associated with the itemized contribution transaction type the type of transaction described in this record options include "direct," "loan," "in kind," "transfer," "refund," "self financing," or "other " transaction date the date of the transaction in yyyy mm dd format campaign id unique id associated with the campaign receiving an itemized contribution contributor person id the unique person id from people docid\ pki2wftcvogqghoyar1cp for the person associated with this transaction (note we will only share this id if we were able to generate a match with reasonable confidence otherwise, this will be null but the contributor's unmatched details will remain populated in the other contributor columns ) contributor is individual boolean indicating whether the contributor is a person ( true ) rather than an organization or committee ( false ) contributor name first the first name of the contributor, if available contributor name last the last name of the contributor, if available contributor state the contributor's reported state of residence contributor zip the contributor's reported zip code of residence contributor industry the high level industry associated with the contributor's occupation, if available is in kind boolean indicating whether this contribution was made in the form of free goods or services ( true ) rather than being a direct monetary contribution ( false ) amount the cash value (or in the case of in kind contributions, the cash equivalent value) of the contribution