Doctor political contributions from New Jersey

Why $1,084,172 is a join, not a hub restatement

LobbyVault keeps a Doctor occupation page and a New Jersey state page. Neither page is this join. The join is $1,084,172 from 2,476 contributions and 242 donors where occupation equals DOCTOR and state equals NJ. Against the occupation total of $33,843,608, that is 3.2%. Other states hold $32,759,436.

Do not treat 3.2% as Doctor workers’ share of all New Jersey receipts. The state hub still holds every other occupation. Do not treat 242 as a headcount of everyone who held the job in New Jersey. The count is donor keys whose itemized receipts grouped to this string. The packet does not publish a party split or an employer split for this pair.

Donor state NJ is the address on the itemized record, not proof of a New Jersey professional license, and not a limit to New Jersey candidates. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by self-reported occupation and donor state.

What $33,843,608 on the occupation hub includes

On the occupation side, Doctor indexes $33,843,608 of itemized individual receipts across harvested geography. $1,084,172 is already inside that total; adding $1,084,172 to $33,843,608 would double-count the New Jersey slice. Doctor occupation pages still mix New Jersey with every other state.

DOCTOR is a short clinical string. Physician and MD are sibling occupation keys. FEC.gov does not verify medical licenses or specialties. Keep the exact string on the citation so Doctor is not merged with a sibling title. Physician, MD, Doctor of Medicine, and DO are other keys. Use the occupation hub to see the title without a state filter, and use this tie page when the question is specifically Doctor in New Jersey.

What the New Jersey hub still mixes

New Jersey campaign finance still holds teachers, retirees, attorneys, and every other occupation string that used NJ. Adding those dollars to $1,084,172 would destroy the occupation filter. Subtracting $1,084,172 from an unpublished statewide total is also out of scope: this packet does not include a New Jersey all-occupation dollar figure.

What this page does include on the state side: 2,476 contributions, 242 donors, $1,084,172. Those three numbers share the occupation filter DOCTOR. Without that filter they are not this join.

Donor keys, lines, and means for Doctor in New Jersey

2,476 contributions totaling $1,084,172 is the operational definition of the New Jersey side for this occupation. Repeat gifts from the same donor key raise the line count without raising 242. About 10.2 lines per donor is consistent with repeat itemization, but it is not proof of a giving program.

Mean $438 per line and $4,480 per donor should never be quoted as a typical Doctor gift in New Jersey. Typical would need a median. This extract has none. 242 keys can hide a lopsided mix of large and small gifts — both directions are possible and neither is measured here.

Public records, not accusations

Public records, not accusations: $1,084,172 from 2,476 contributions and 242 donors is a disclosure aggregate. It is not evidence of coordination, quid pro quo, or professional-bloc control. Correlation is not causation. Doctor × New Jersey is a database join.

Researchers should keep DOCTOR as the stored occupation string and NJ as the donor-state tag. DOCTOR is a short clinical string. Physician and MD are sibling occupation keys. FEC.gov does not verify medical licenses or specialties. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates grouped by occupation and donor state. Live hubs win if they disagree with this snapshot.

Doctor next to other New Jersey occupation strings

Other occupation strings in New Jersey live on other tie pages. This file does not add their dollars to $1,084,172. Physician, MD, Doctor of Medicine, and DO are the usual nearby labels. Opening All occupations is the way to find them. Opening All FEC ties is the way to find other occupation-state cells.

Do not invent donor names to illustrate 242 keys. The aggregate is the published object. Named individuals belong on other LobbyVault pages if those pages exist; they are not supplied here.

Repeat the join in one sentence for citation: occupation Doctor, donor state New Jersey (NJ), $1,084,172 itemized, 2,476 contributions, 242 donors, 3.2% of $33,843,608. DOCTOR is a short clinical string. Physician and MD are sibling occupation keys. FEC.gov does not verify medical licenses or specialties. Physician, MD, Doctor of Medicine, and DO stay on other occupation pages. The New Jersey campaign finance hub still mixes every other title. All occupations and All FEC ties are indexes, not extra dollar columns.

Questions

What is the New Jersey Doctor contribution total?

$1,084,172 from 2,476 itemized contributions and 242 donor keys whose occupation grouped to DOCTOR and whose donor state grouped to NJ. Source: FEC.gov. That number is not the occupation’s national total of $33,843,608. Mixing the two columns is incorrect.

What share of Doctor occupation receipts is New Jersey?

3.2%. That is $1,084,172 divided by $33,843,608. The complement is $32,759,436 from other states under the same occupation string. The share is not a share of donors nationwide, votes, or federal awards. Contribution share is 2.5%; donor share is 3.2%.

Does occupation DOCTOR mean the donors were licensed in New Jersey?

No. Occupation is a filer-entered field. FEC.gov does not verify licenses, degrees, or employment. DOCTOR is a short clinical string. Physician and MD are sibling occupation keys. FEC.gov does not verify medical licenses or specialties. 242 is a donor-key count, not a credential census. The dollars remain $1,084,172 on 2,476 lines.

Where are the live Doctor and New Jersey tables?

Doctor donations carries the $33,843,608 occupation total. New Jersey campaign finance places Doctor beside other occupation strings in that state. All occupations and All FEC ties list sibling joins. Original filings remain at FEC.gov. This tie page is the Doctor × New Jersey intersection only.