What DOCTOR donors give in federal races

Generic clinical noun, mid-volume file

$33,843,608, 97,205 itemizations, and 7,623 donor records are the three occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $348. Mean dollars per donor record is about $4,440. Repeat giving is about 13 itemizations per donor record.

The word can mean a physician, a dentist, a Ph.D. holder, or another doctorate. The FEC occupation column does not split those senses. This overlay does not invent that split.

These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median and no specialty cross-tab.

DOCTOR is not PHYSICIAN

PHYSICIAN is a different occupation page with its own facts. Donors who prefer the generic noun land here; donors who prefer the medical-license word land there. Combining DOCTOR and PHYSICIAN without showing both source totals mixes keys the bulk file kept apart.

This page cites only $33,843,608, 97,205 contributions, and 7,623 donors. DENTIST remains a third key. The FEC record does not verify an active medical license.

Donor records versus licensed clinicians

7,623 donor records used DOCTOR on at least one matching itemization. That is not a count of practicing physicians. Retirees, Ph.D. holders, and people using the honorific loosely can appear. Address variants split records.

A person who listed DOCTOR on some gifts and PHYSICIAN on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines. Occupation is per transaction.

Health-industry tables are not this filter

Industry pages group employers. Doctors in hospitals and doctors in private practice share this occupation string if they typed DOCTOR. Adding $33,843,608 to a health-care industry total double-counts.

Open the DOCTOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see PHYSICIAN and DENTIST as neighboring keys.

How to cite without collapsing medical titles

If a brief needs a single clinical-occupation figure, list DOCTOR on its own and footnote PHYSICIAN and DENTIST. This overlay does not add them.

A public-record sentence: occupation equals DOCTOR, dollars equal $33,843,608, contributions equal 97,205, donors equal 7,623, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Honorific, license, and doctorate sharing one noun

DOCTOR in this extract is $33,843,608 on 97,205 itemizations from 7,623 donor records, or $33.8 million in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. A medical-board match would require a different dataset. This overlay stays inside the occupation column and the three harvested facts. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $348 per contribution and about $4,440 per donor record, with roughly 13 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as PHYSICIAN and DENTIST remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to DOCTOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 7,623 donor records on 97,205 lines is a mid-volume clinical-or-academic noun, not a count of practicing physicians.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $33,843,608. A person who listed DOCTOR on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals DOCTOR, dollars equal $33,843,608, contributions equal 97,205, donors equal 7,623. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($33.8 million) are the same headline amount as $33,843,608, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see whether DOCTOR is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have DOCTOR donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list DOCTOR sum to $33,843,608 across 97,205 contributions and 7,623 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is the generic occupation noun, not a licensed-physician census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is PHYSICIAN included in the DOCTOR total?

No. PHYSICIAN and DENTIST are separate occupation strings. This page covers DOCTOR only: $33,843,608, 97,205 contributions, and 7,623 donors. Combining medical titles without naming each key changes the unit. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average DOCTOR contribution?

Dividing $33,843,608 by 97,205 itemizations yields about $348 per contribution. Dividing by 7,623 donors yields about $4,440 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does DOCTOR always mean a medical doctor?

Not necessarily. Occupation is self-reported free text. The same string can cover physicians, dentists, and other doctorate holders. This packet has no specialty split. Quote 97,205 contributions and 7,623 donor records with the dollars. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.