• Common Parameters
• Methods
  • Top Industries
  • Top Organizations

Industry Aggregates

Common Parameters

Unless otherwise specified, all aggregate methods respond to entity_id, limit, and cycle parameters.

Methods

Top Industries

By contributions given, in dollars.

/aggregates/industries/top_:limit.json

Parameters

• cycle and limit only, this method returns multiple entities.

Example

Get the top 2 industries in the 2012 cycle.

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/industries/top_2.json?cycle=2006&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "count": "2133557",
        "amount": "455606030.42",
        "id": "cdb3f500a3f74179bb4a5eb8b2932fa6",
        "should_show_entity": true,
        "name": "UNKNOWN"
    },
    {
        "count": "80122",
        "amount": "290070135.52",
        "id": "0af3f418f426497e8bbf916bfc074ebc",
        "should_show_entity": true,
        "name": "SECURITIES & INVESTMENT"
    }
]

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Top Organizations

Top organizations in an industry by dollars contributed.

/aggregates/industry/:entity_id/orgs.json

Example

Get the top organization in the Food & Beverage industry:

http://transparencydata.com/api/1.0/aggregates/industry/165d820dd48441e1befdc47f3fa3d236/orgs.json?cycle=2012&limit=1&apikey=YOUR_KEY

Response

[
    {
        "employee_amount": "521598.00",
        "total_amount": "913298.00",
        "total_count": "771",
        "name": "McDonald's Corp",
        "direct_count": "290",
        "employee_count": "481",
        "id": "721c64757c11435393edc49bb33d4c96",
        "direct_amount": "391700.00"
    }
]