Methodology
This static screen is rendered from APP_SHELL.methodology in web/src/lib/config/app.ts and summarizes the federal-first money-view methodology.
Schedule A scope
Loaded itemized individual contribution rows cover cycles 2022, 2024, and 2026 with transaction_date >= 2022-01-01, transaction_type LIKE '1%', contributor_entity_type = 'IND', no memo rows, no terminated amendments, and no superseded source records.
Loaded Schedule A values are floors for the loaded current-officeholder committee slice, not full-universe FEC Schedule A totals.
Donor grouping
Donor search groups by contributor_name, contributor_employer, contributor_occupation, contributor_city, contributor_state, and normalized_zip5, and collapses to one canonical donor identity only when the backend resolves exactly one canonical donor identity. Public official top-contributor rows remain unresolved raw identities grouped only by contributor_name_raw, contributor_city, and contributor_state.
Coverage
Detailed coverage and source inventories live on /coverage and /data-sources; this page links users there instead of duplicating those tables.
The public employer-industry benchmark currently has 837 classified and 13,487 unknown employer-industry values, an API-derived 5.8% classified benchmark.
Freshness
Federal refreshes are scheduled weekly.
FEC bulk freshness health is bounded at 7d. Donor-rollup health is bounded at 7d6h. Donor-search serving freshness is bounded at 8d.