MD

Why MD and 2012 are joined

LobbyVault’s industry keys include occupation-like abbreviations that appear often enough to form buckets. MD is one of those buckets. Crossing it with 2012 keeps every other occupation and every other cycle out of the dollar total. The result is $971,723 — a cell, not a verdict on physicians as a class. Named-hospital or group-practice keys are stored separately.

The same grouping, added across all stored cycles, is $20,116,027. The 2012 slice is about 4.8% of that stack. A presidential-year cell that is a small fraction of a large abbreviation bucket usually means the label is used in many other windows. It does not mean 2012 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view without the MD filter.

What the two letters capture — and what they do not

Donors type titles. Some write M.D., some write physician, some write MD. Those strings do not collapse into one official taxonomy. MD can also be a state abbreviation in other FEC fields, but this industry key is the employer/occupation rollup as stored, not a Maryland geography page. People who listed a hospital name as employer land in employer groupings, not here.

285 donors are contributor identities whose matched text fell in this grouping, not a sample of one hospital’s medical staff. A filer who listed both MD and a practice name may still land in only one rollup on this site.

Treat $20,116,027 as the denominator for the 4.8% share. Neighboring clinical-title keys, if they exist, keep their own facts. This page does not rank them.

Questions

How much did MD-labeled donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $971,723 in itemized individual contributions for the MD grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 807 contributions and 285 donors. The label is a self-reported abbreviation, not a physician census and not a Maryland geography total.

Does MD here mean Maryland?

This page is the MD employer/occupation grouping, not a state hub. Geography keys live on other LobbyVault pages. The 285 donors are contributor identities that matched the MD string in occupation or employer text.

What share of the MD total is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle sum is $20,116,027. $971,723 divided by that figure is about 4.8%. Other cycles make up the remainder.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open MD 2012 for the table, MD for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this title filter. All FEC ties collects other two-dimension pages.