election
Source
The data about campaign donations at the federal level is downloadable from:
under the section on "Contributions by individuals"
Description of the Data
The names, addresses, and amounts of money donations by individuals is given, during each 2-year election campaign cycle.
There is also one file called escaped2020sample.txt (see below).
Transformations to the original data source
The file escaped2020sample.txt contains a fraction of the data from the itcont2020.txt file, with the data fields surrounded by double quotes.
To download the original data sources, we run:
unzip indiv80.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1980.txt
unzip indiv82.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1982.txt
unzip indiv84.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1984.txt
unzip indiv86.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1986.txt
unzip indiv88.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1988.txt
unzip indiv90.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1990.txt
unzip indiv92.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1992.txt
unzip indiv94.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1994.txt
unzip indiv96.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1996.txt
unzip indiv98.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont1998.txt
unzip indiv00.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2000.txt
unzip indiv02.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2002.txt
unzip indiv04.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2004.txt
unzip indiv06.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2006.txt
unzip indiv08.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2008.txt
unzip indiv10.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2010.txt
unzip indiv12.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2012.txt
unzip indiv14.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2014.txt
unzip indiv16.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2016.txt
unzip indiv18.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2018.txt
unzip indiv20.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2020.txt
unzip indiv22.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2022.txt
unzip indiv24.zip
mv itcont.txt itcont2024.txt
rm *.zip
rm -rf by_date