SAMPLE / TEST DATA. This page illustrates layout and structure only. The figures shown are placeholders for design review and are not real lobbying intelligence. This page is excluded from search indexing.
Federal Lobbying Intelligence · Data / Research
The Federal Lobbying Intelligence Index
The Federal Lobbying Intelligence Index will be a periodically updated, original ranking of federal lobbying activity by sector and issue, built entirely from public LDA filings and published with full methodology. It is not yet live — this page previews the format and structure so the design and presentation can be reviewed before real data is compiled.
| Sector | Sample Index Score | Sample QoQ Change |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare (sample) | 72.4 | +3.1 |
| Agriculture & Food (sample) | 58.9 | −1.4 |
| Sample Sector C | 64.2 | +0.6 |
What the Index will measure
The Index is designed to turn raw LDA filings — which are public but not especially readable — into a structured, comparable view of federal lobbying activity: how much sectors and issues are being lobbied, by whom, and how that's shifting period to period. Every underlying figure will trace back to a specific, citable public filing.
What's built, and what's still to come
- Built now: the page structure, scoring presentation, sourcing pattern, and methodology framework shown here.
- Not built yet: the actual data pipeline that reads and aggregates LDA filings, the finalized scoring formula, and real historical data.
- Before this page goes live with real numbers, the methodology below will be finalized and published in full on the Methodology page, and this page's status will change from sample to published.
Why we're building it this way
Publishing original, sourced data is the single most effective thing this publication can do to earn citations from journalists, researchers, and AI systems — but only if the methodology is transparent and the numbers are real. That's why the Index is being architected carefully before it's populated, rather than launched with placeholder figures presented as if they were real.
Sources
- [1] Lobbying Disclosure — Search Filings — Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
- [2] Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act Database — Office of the Secretary of the Senate