Political donor ideology
Indicates whether an individual of a given household has expressed interest in donating for liberal or conservative causes. Known or imputed for 16.8 million individuals — 6.7% of Faraday's identity graph.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 6.7%
- Typical coverage
- 6.7%
- Individuals with a value
- 16.8M
- Median
- 2
- Most values come
- from the person
- Latest collection
- May 1, 2026
Distribution
n = 16,812,166Share of individuals with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 1 and 2, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of individuals have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Median over time
22 → 2 across 12 collections, shaded between P25 and P75. Estimated from a 1% sample of individuals.
What the delivered codes mean
4 codes
- 0
- unknown
- 1
- liberal
- 2
- conservative
- 3
- both
Coverage
Latest collection: 229,689,060 individualsCoverage by state
Percentage of individuals in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
6.7% todayShare of individuals holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 100%
- A named person, from a record about that person.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
Coverage, in context
Where 6.7% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 24% of individual-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of individuals in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Change between collections
The share of individuals whose value is different from the previous collection.
of individuals changed value between the two most recent collections — 730.8× steadier than the catalog median of 13.5%.
Contribution ledger
13 ingestions
1 authority contributed since Jul 2023.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 2026-09-10 | 266,506,942 | c5492806… |
| 2026-03-01 | 2026-07-01 | 264,096,977 | 1181277b… |
| 2026-02-01 | 2026-07-02 | 264,777,400 | af53c569… |
| 2025-12-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,508,091 | 84d6a1c5… |
| 2025-11-01 | 2026-08-11 | 268,299,874 | a071c538… |
Technical details
- API name
- political_donor_ideology
- Category
- fig/civic
- Type · unit
- Integer
- Statistical type
- nominal
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- Declared
- — the attribute is self-reported by the person.
- Observed
- — the attribute is directly observed.
- Directionality
- null
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"political_donor_ideology": 2
}
}