Doctor political contributions in the 2014 FEC cycle

How Doctor and 2014 meet in FEC itemized receipts

Occupation DOCTOR and cycle 2014 produce $1,987,736, 2,330 contributions, and 1,273 donors. The occupation nationwide across cycles is $33,843,608. Dollar share for 2014 is 5.9%. 2,330 contributions from 1,273 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Contribution count is not a headcount of people who hold the job.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. 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 2014 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a midterm-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add 2012 presidential-year dollars into the 2014 total. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $1,987,736.

What the DOCTOR label covers

Doctor donations is the occupation hub: $33,843,608 across cycles from filers who typed DOCTOR. Sibling strings (PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, and MD) are not merged here. The occupation total is not an AMA census, a medical-board licensee file, or a physicians’ PAC.

2014’s $1,987,736 sits inside $33,843,608. Because 5.9% is the cycle’s share of occupation dollars, the rest of Doctor itemization lives in other even-year cycles. Open the occupation hub for the all-cycle table. This tie keeps 2014 as the second dimension.

What the 2014 election cycle contributes to Doctor

The 2014 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Doctor. $1,987,736 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2014. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2010 midterm-year filter.

2,330 contributions from 1,273 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. $1,987,736, 2,330, and 1,273 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $1,987,736. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $1,987,736. Three numbers define the Doctor × 2014 cell: dollars $1,987,736, contribution rows 2,330, unique donors 1,273. Share of occupation dollars is 5.9% of $33,843,608.

Limits of the Doctor 2014 occupation-cycle table

Matching Doctor with 2014 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.

Linked Doctor and 2014 pages

Doctor donations holds the $33,843,608 occupation total. The 2014 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 $1,987,736 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Doctor dollars ($33,843,608). Use the 2014 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $1,987,736, 2,330 contributions, 1,273 donors, 5.9% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Doctor donations, the 2014 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Repeat gifts inside Doctor 2014

2,330 contributions from 1,273 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. Name matching can split or merge people across filings, so 1,273 is an index unique-person count for this pair, not a professional-association census.

2,330 is the row count. $1,987,736 is the dollar count. Neither is a license count. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Occupation labels remain filer-entered.

Questions

How much did Doctor donors give in 2014?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation DOCTOR in the 2014 cycle total $1,987,736, from 2,330 contributions and 1,273 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Doctor-coded receipts are $33,843,608. 2014 is 5.9% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Doctor 2014 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 $1,987,736 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 2014 join is $1,987,736 from 2,330 contributions and 1,273 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 2014 cycle filter on Doctor is $1,987,736, 2,330 contributions, and 1,273 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $33,843,608. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 2,330 Doctor contributions and 1,273 donors in 2014?

The 2014 join includes 2,330 itemized contributions from 1,273 donors totaling $1,987,736. 2,330 contributions from 1,273 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.