Dentist political contributions from Pennsylvania

The Dentist–Pennsylvania intersection

Occupation DENTIST and donor state PA produce $1,207,727, 4,700 contributions, and 319 donors. The occupation hub is $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. Pennsylvania’s dollar share is about 3.3%; contribution share about 3.3% (4,700 of 143,346); donor share about 3.0% (319 of 10,521). Three hundred nineteen Pennsylvania donors are 3.0% of 10,521 national DENTIST donors. Dollars and contributions both sit near 3.3% of $36,685,531 and 143,346 national rows.

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

319 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,700 contributions, about 14.7 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 Pennsylvania cell is about $257, against about $256 nationwide. Pennsylvania’s near-match to the national mean is arithmetic, not a ranking of Philadelphia or Pittsburgh practices. About 14.7 rows per donor here versus about 13.6 nationally.

DENTIST as a clinical occupation string

DENTIST is a filer-entered string. The file does not verify a dental license, a specialty board, or a practice ownership. The word DENTIST 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 Pennsylvania (PA). This page locates the Pennsylvania overlap. It does not classify the 319 Pennsylvania donors as general dentists or specialists.

Pennsylvania as donor state

319 Pennsylvania donors produced 4,700 contributions totaling $1,207,727. Donor state PA is the address on the record, not proof of a Pennsylvania license, and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. PA is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a Pennsylvania dental license and not a limit to Pennsylvania candidates. Practice location can differ from donor address.

The Pennsylvania campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to PA. This join is only DENTIST. The Dentist occupation hub without Pennsylvania still holds about 96.7% of the $36,685,531. Pennsylvania’s state hub includes every occupation coded to PA. DENTIST is only this filter.

What not to infer from Dentist plus Pennsylvania

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. Those strings, if used, never enter the $1,207,727. 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 state dental-board roster. Donor state PA 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 Pennsylvania 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 ($35,477,804) 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 319 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 4,700 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,207,727 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Pennsylvania dollars, or only the DENTIST national total, drops a key. Three hundred nineteen donors producing 4,700 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,207,727 headline.

Related tables

Dentist donations holds the $36,685,531 national occupation total. Pennsylvania 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. Michigan, Virginia, and New Jersey have separate Dentist occupation-state ties; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have Dentist donors in Pennsylvania given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DENTIST and state Pennsylvania total $1,207,727, from 4,700 contributions and 319 donors. Nationwide, DENTIST-coded receipts are $36,685,531 from 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donors. Pennsylvania is about 3.3% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are these licensed Pennsylvania dentists?

The FEC file does not verify licenses. Occupation is DENTIST and state is PA. Three hundred nineteen donors are not a dental-board extract. The 319 Pennsylvania donors used occupation DENTIST and state PA. 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 Pennsylvania?

About 3.3% of the $36,685,531 occupation total is in this Pennsylvania join ($1,207,727). Pennsylvania also accounts for about 3.3% of contributions (4,700 of 143,346) and about 3.0% of donors (319 of 10,521). About 3.3% of dollars from 319 of 10,521 donors and 4,700 of 143,346 contributions.

Does this money go to Pennsylvania candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Pennsylvania. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,207,727 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to PA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.