This spreadsheet contains data collected from the personal financial disclosure reports of 6,933 state legislators as well as metadata from the National Institute on Money in State Politics (NIMSP). The records in this dataset cover the 2015 calendar year, though in a small number of cases that information was unavailable. In those cases, the records cover the most recent prior report available for that lawmaker. Some lawmakers may no longer be in office.
cpi_id: a unique ID that identifies each lawmaker-employer/business interest relationship
lawmaker_id: an ID unique to each lawmaker, provided by NIMSP
lawmaker: a lawmaker’s name
state: a lawmaker’s state, provided by NIMSP
body: a lawmaker’s chamber, provided by NIMSP
district: a lawmaker’s district, provided by NIMSP
employer_business_interest: a lawmaker’s salaried employment, business ownership and rental income (This does not include stocks, bonds, pensions or Social Security. In some cases, we were unable to determine whether a job or business belong to a legislator or a legislator’s family member; in such cases we included the information in our dataset.)
industry: the industry category of the employer or business interest, using criteria developed by NIMSP
disclosure_report: the URL to a lawmaker’s personal financial disclosure forms
The Center for Public Integrity collected these records from the personal financial disclosure reports of 6,933 state legislators. The Center made every effort to ensure the information was entered correctly, but in a project of this size and complexity, small errors are always possible. These records are provided as is and the Center assumes no liability for your use of these. When using this release to report on specific lawmakers, please refer to the original documents linked to in these records. If you think you’ve spotted an error, please report it to data@publicintegrity.org.