Doctor political contributions in the 2010 FEC cycle

The Doctor × 2010 intersection

Doctor in 2010 is $2,092,689 on 2,760 itemized lines from 1,530 people in the unique-donor roll-up. 2010 accounts for 6.2% of the Doctor occupation total ($2,092,689 of $33,843,608). Most Doctor-coded dollars sit in other FEC cycles. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, grouped by self-reported occupation and election cycle, are the source.

2,760 contributions from 1,530 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Unique-donor count collapses multiple gifts by the same person inside this occupation-cycle pair. It does not verify that those 1,530 people still used that title after 2010.

This page is not a restatement of the Doctor hub or of the 2010 cycle hub. The occupation hub is every cycle. The cycle hub is every occupation. The tie is the intersection: $2,092,689.

The Doctor occupation hub behind $33,843,608

Filers who typed doctor produced the all-cycle occupation total of $33,843,608. DOCTOR is the occupation string. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD, if typed that way, are other pages. The join does not verify medical licenses or distinguish M.D. from other doctorate uses of the word doctor. The occupation is not an AMA census, a medical-board licensee file, or a physicians’ PAC.

2010 as the cycle side of the Doctor join

The 2010 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Doctor. $2,092,689 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2010. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2014 midterm-year filter.

2,760 contributions from 1,530 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,092,689, 2,760, and 1,530 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,092,689. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,092,689. Three numbers define the Doctor × 2010 cell: dollars $2,092,689, contribution rows 2,760, unique donors 1,530. Share of occupation dollars is 6.2% of $33,843,608.

Caveats on DOCTOR in 2010

Matching Doctor with 2010 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Doctor donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an AMA census, a medical-board licensee file, or a physicians’ PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. DOCTOR is the occupation string. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD, if typed that way, are other pages. The join does not verify medical licenses or distinguish M.D. from other doctorate uses of the word doctor. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Doctor donations hub is $33,843,608; the 2010 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Doctor and 2010 pages

Doctor donations holds the $33,843,608 occupation total. The 2010 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Doctor. All occupations places DOCTOR beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,092,689 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Doctor dollars ($33,843,608). Use the 2010 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,092,689, 2,760 contributions, 1,530 donors, 6.2% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Doctor donations, the 2010 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep DOCTOR as the occupation key and 2010 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,092,689.

How $2,092,689 sits under $33,843,608

Subtract $2,092,689 from $33,843,608 and the residual is other even-year cycles for the same occupation string, not a different title. 6.2% in 2010 leaves the rest of Doctor dollars outside this page.

Do not treat the residual as a named year. This packet only publishes 2010 as the cycle dimension. The occupation hub is the place for the full $33,843,608 series. Sibling strings (PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD) remain outside $2,092,689. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,092,689.

Questions

How much did Doctor donors give in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DOCTOR in the 2010 cycle total $2,092,689, from 2,760 contributions and 1,530 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Doctor-coded receipts are $33,843,608. 2010 is 6.2% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Doctor 2010 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,092,689 or in the $33,843,608 occupation figure used here. The field is DOCTOR as typed. FEC aggregates do not encode medical license, so the string is not a verified physician census. The 2010 join is $2,092,689 from 2,760 contributions and 1,530 donors.

Are these all physicians?

The field is DOCTOR as typed. FEC aggregates do not encode medical license, so the string is not a verified physician census. The 2010 cycle filter on Doctor is $2,092,689, 2,760 contributions, and 1,530 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $33,843,608. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 2,760 Doctor contributions and 1,530 donors in 2010?

The 2010 join includes 2,760 itemized contributions from 1,530 donors totaling $2,092,689. 2,760 contributions from 1,530 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.