Ophthalmologist occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

Two keys: OPHTHALMOLOGIST and 2012

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Ophthalmologist and 2012 yields $692,033. That is 992 itemized lines and 491 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

A medical-specialty occupation string, not a clinic payroll can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping OPHTHALMOLOGIST. Related titles are not added. The 491 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $6,828,666. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Ophthalmologist versus OPTOMETRIST

OPTOMETRIST, PHYSICIAN, and EYE SURGEON can sit in other buckets. This join uses the exact grouping OPHTHALMOLOGIST. Related titles are not added into $692,033 or $6,828,666.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode OPHTHALMOLOGIST into a NAICS industry. The 10.1% ratio is $692,033 divided by $6,828,666. Other even-year joins for OPHTHALMOLOGIST are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $6,136,633. Citing 2012 as if it were the Ophthalmologist lifetime total would overstate this cell by $6,136,633.

Means on $692,033

Packet arithmetic: $692,033 ÷ 992 ≈ $698 per contribution; $692,033 ÷ 491 ≈ $1,409 per donor; 992 ÷ 491 ≈ 2.0 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. A mean of $698 per itemized line and $1,409 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 992 contributions remaining larger than 491 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

Lifetime Ophthalmologist money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $6,828,666 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $692,033, about 10.1%. The leftover $6,136,633 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$6,828,666 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 10.1% describes 2012 inside Ophthalmologist, nothing else. FEC cycle 2012 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $692,033 if they were itemized against OPHTHALMOLOGIST. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

National awards, research grants, and agency contracts live in USAspending. This join has no grant identifiers. Ranking occupations as more political is not a claim these facts support.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Cite $692,033, 992 contributions, and 491 donors for Ophthalmologist in 2012. Cite $6,828,666 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov. Ophthalmologist as a medical-specialty occupation string, not a clinic payroll can appear in licensing or contracting databases under similar names. Those tables are not this $692,033. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards.

Related Ophthalmologist and 2012 tables

Ophthalmologist donations is the occupation hub behind $6,828,666. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot.

Keep the occupation string OPHTHALMOLOGIST attached to $692,033 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 992 contributions and 491 donors in the same citation. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source. Quote both keys: Ophthalmologist and 2012. Quote the dollars: $692,033. Quote the volume: 992 contributions, 491 donors. Quote the source: FEC.gov. Leave NAICS codes and named donors out unless a later overlay supplies them. Restating the join without new numbers: Ophthalmologist in 2012 is $692,033 from 992 itemized individual contributions and 491 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $6,828,666 across cycles, so 2012 is about 10.1% and other windows hold $6,136,633 (89.9%). The grouping is a medical-specialty occupation string, not a clinic payroll, not EYEPAC as a committee, OPTOMETRIST as a neighboring key, or a board-certification roll. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $698; mean per donor about $1,409; about 2.0 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $692,033.

Questions

How much did Ophthalmologist-labeled donors give in 2012?

The Ophthalmologist × 2012 cell is $692,033. FEC.gov counted 992 itemized individual contributions from 491 unique donors. That is the join, not the $6,828,666 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $692,033, 992 contributions, and 491 donors in the Ophthalmologist × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,828,666.

What share of Ophthalmologist FEC money fell in 2012?

2012 holds $692,033 of the $6,828,666 stored for Ophthalmologist, roughly 10.1%. The leftover $6,136,633 is other windows on the occupation hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $692,033, 992 contributions, and 491 donors in the Ophthalmologist × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,828,666.

Does Ophthalmologist include optometrists?

It is form text, not a license file. FEC.gov aggregated $692,033 for OPHTHALMOLOGIST in 2012 (992 contributions, 491 donors). Related occupation strings are not merged. FEC.gov is the source for $692,033, 992 contributions, and 491 donors in the Ophthalmologist × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,828,666.

Where is the overlay for Ophthalmologist in 2012?

Use the four packet hrefs: Ophthalmologist donations, 2012 election cycle, All occupations, and All FEC ties. This file explains $692,033 as the join. If a hub disagrees with $692,033, the hub and FEC.gov control. FEC.gov is the source for $692,033, 992 contributions, and 491 donors in the Ophthalmologist × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,828,666.