Dentist political contributions from Michigan

The Dentist–Michigan intersection

Occupation DENTIST and donor state MI produce $1,133,005, 4,941 contributions, and 325 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Michigan’s dollar share is about 3.1%; contribution share about 3.4% (4,941 of 143,346); donor share about 3.1% (325 of 10,521). Three hundred twenty-five Michigan donors are 3.1% of 10,521 national DENTIST donors. Contributions (4,941 of 143,346) are about 3.4%; dollars about 3.1% of $36,685,531.

DDS, ORAL SURGEON, and DENTAL, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack DENTIST with DDS or ORAL SURGEON into a single Michigan professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

325 Michigan donors produced 4,941 contributions, about 15.2 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 13.6 rows per donor nationally (143,346 contributions from 10,521 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Michigan cell is about $229, against about $256 nationwide. Michigan’s slightly lower mean with a larger headcount is arithmetic on 4,941 rows, not a ranking of Detroit or Grand Rapids practices. About 15.2 rows per donor here versus about 13.6 nationally.

DENTIST receipts with a Michigan address

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The file does not verify a Michigan dental license. The word DENTIST plus MI is the filter. The $36,685,531 national total is DENTIST only. 10,521 donors produced 143,346 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 143,346 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Michigan (MI). This page locates the Michigan overlap. It does not classify the 325 Michigan donors by specialty.

Michigan as donor state

325 Michigan donors produced 4,941 contributions totaling $1,133,005. Donor state MI is the address on the record, not proof of a Michigan license, and not a limit to Michigan candidates. MI is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Michigan dental license and not a limit to Michigan candidates. Practice location can differ from donor address.

The Michigan campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to MI. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Michigan still holds about 96.9% of the $36,685,531. Michigan’s state hub includes every occupation coded to MI. DENTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Dentist plus Michigan

This page does not merge DDS dollars, verify licenses, or claim that Dentist-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. DENTIST is not DDS. This page does not offer dental advice.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DENTIST is not a Michigan dental-board roster. Donor state MI is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Practice names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one Dentist filter

Subtract the Michigan dollars on this page from the national DENTIST occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded DENTIST in every other state combined. That remainder ($35,552,526) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 325 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 4,941 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,133,005 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Michigan dollars, or only the DENTIST national total, drops a key. Three hundred twenty-five donors producing 4,941 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,133,005 headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 national occupation total. Michigan campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Pennsylvania’s Dentist join sits closer to the national mean; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Michigan given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Michigan total $1,133,005, from 4,941 contributions and 325 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Michigan is about 3.1% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Michigan dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is DENTIST and state is MI. Three hundred twenty-five donors are not a dental-board extract. The 325 Michigan donors used occupation DENTIST and state MI. Filers who wrote DDS or ORAL SURGEON may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of Dentist FEC money is from Michigan?

About 3.1% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Michigan join ($1,133,005). Michigan also accounts for about 3.4% of contributions (4,941 of 143,346) and about 3.1% of donors (325 of 10,521). About 3.1% of dollars from 325 of 10,521 donors and 4,941 of 143,346 contributions.

Does this money go to Michigan candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Michigan. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,133,005 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to MI; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.