Nurse occupation string × 2012 FEC cycle

Occupation string plus FEC cycle, not a new dataset

$1.5 million is the rounded form of $1,476,403 for Nurse in 2012. Use the exact dollar figure in a table. Use the rounded form only as a headline. 1,144 contribution lines and 565 donors stay attached to the same filter. Dropping either count turns a join into a slogan.

The occupation total $15,033,909 answers a different question: how much the string NURSE sums to on the whole extract. 2012 is one slice (9.8%). Nurse donations holds that all-cycle view. 2012 election cycle holds every occupation in 2012. All FEC ties lists other slices. All occupations lists other strings.

How NURSE sits among other occupation keys

The occupation-wide total for NURSE on this extract is $15,033,909 ($15.0 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2012. $1,476,403 is the 2012 slice (9.8%). NURSE is the short occupation string. REGISTERED NURSE, RN, NURSE PRACTITIONER, LPN, and NURSING sit on other pages unless the filer typed NURSE exactly. This join is not a Board of Nursing census and not a hospital-payroll extract.

The occupation hub answers “how much did this string give across the extract?” This ties page answers “how much of that string sits in 2012?” Mixing the answers produces a false third number. Keep $15,033,909 on the occupation sentence and $1,476,403 on the cycle sentence.

Reading the 2012 cycle hub next to this cell

The 2012 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2012 federal election calendar. It is a reporting window on individual contribution records, not a single Election Day total and not a count of offices on the ballot. Receipts dated inside that cycle window stay here; receipts dated in another even-year cycle sit on that other join. Inside that window, Nurse accounts for $1,476,403 on 1,144 contributions from 565 donors.

Other even-year joins for the same occupation are separate pages. This file cites only 2012. Naming another cycle’s dollars here would invent a fact the packet does not contain. Use all FEC ties to find sibling occupation–cycle pages without copying their totals into this cell.

What repeat gifts do to the 2012 line count

1,144 contributions and 565 donors describe different units. A row is an itemized receipt line. A donor is a unique person inside this occupation–cycle filter as LobbyVault matches names. 1,144 divided by 565 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,476,403 divided by 565 is about $2,613 per donor; $1,476,403 divided by 1,144 is about $1,291 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

Unitemized gifts are absent. Small donors who never crossed the itemization threshold cannot appear in 1,144 or 565. $1,476,403 is therefore a floor on disclosed itemized dollars for this string in 2012, not a complete accounting of every federal gift by people who hold the job.

A complete citation names occupation NURSE, cycle 2012, dollars $1,476,403, contribution lines 1,144, and unique donors 565. Omitting the occupation string makes the cycle look occupation-wide. Omitting the cycle makes the occupation hub look like a single-year figure. Omitting the donor count invites a reader to treat 1,144 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Keeping Nurse and 2012 on separate nouns

This page is not a claim that donations fund federal spending. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets. The join here is occupation × cycle inside FEC.gov only. It is not a ranking of occupations, not medical or political advice, and not a statement that Nurse as a profession acted in concert in 2012.

The 9.8% share is only $1,476,403 / $15,033,909. It is not a share of GDP, of industry receipts, or of all 2012 itemized gifts. Using it as a political-weight score would be invention. Leave it as a slice of one occupation string.

Nurse donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2012 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2012. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,476,403 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Nurse as more influential than another title.

Questions

What is the 2012 total for occupation NURSE?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation NURSE total $1,476,403 in the 2012 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 1,144 contributions and 565 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $15,033,909, so 2012 is 9.8% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

Does the 2012 figure include every cycle for Nurse?

No. $1,476,403 is the 2012 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $15,033,909 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Nurse donations and not a restatement of 2012 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

Are 1,144 contributions the same as unique people?

The join lists 565 unique donors and 1,144 contribution lines for NURSE in 2012. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $2,613 per donor and $1,291 per line are means from $1,476,403, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Are similar occupation strings merged into NURSE?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string NURSE as filers typed it. Nearby titles stay on other keys listed under all occupations. The string is not a NAICS code, not a BLS occupation, and not a PAC. See Nurse donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.