Campaign expenditures in the United States, 1981-1982

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.