Calculating industry lobbying

[Alex Cohen]

I notice that the lobbying table includes an [Ind] field, used to
determine if a report's total should be included for industry
calculations, according to the data dictionary.

For totals other than spending amounts -- calculating the number of
lobbyists for an industry, for example -- is it ok not to use this
field?

Thanks,

Alex Cohen
Senior Researcher
Public Citizen's Congress Watch

[Jihan Andoni]

Alex,
You don't need the ind field to calculate other totals like number of
lobbyists.
Jihan

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[Alex Cohen]

That's what I thought, but I appreciate the confirmation.

Thanks,

Alex

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