Physician political contributions from Birmingham, AL

What the Physician × Birmingham overlap is

Two stored strings produce $24,100: city BIRMINGHAM (AL) and grouping PHYSICIAN. 99 itemized receipts and 98 donors survive both filters. $100,682,535 is the city dimension with the industry filter removed (262,780 city-field contributions). $24,100 is under 0.1% of that city book.

This is not a restatement of Birmingham, AL, which mixes every employer string. It is not a restatement of Physician, which mixes every city. 99 rows exist only at the intersection. Correlation is not causation: an employer field plus a city field does not prove why someone gave or whom they supported.

Birmingham is stored as BIRMINGHAM in Alabama; other Alabama city strings are other keys. PHYSICIAN is stored as an occupation string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every related job title. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and employer/industry grouping.

What the Birmingham, AL city book holds

On the city side, BIRMINGHAM in AL indexes $100,682,535 of itemized individual dollars on 262,780 city-field lines. The Physician slice is $24,100 (under 0.1%). The complement inside the city book used other stored groupings. 262,780 is a city-wide contribution count, not a unique-resident count.

Birmingham is stored as BIRMINGHAM in Alabama; other Alabama city strings are other keys. Keep state AL on the name so Birmingham is not merged with a same-named place elsewhere. Donor city is not recipient city. Committees that received the $24,100 can file anywhere.

What PHYSICIAN means on the tape

PHYSICIAN is stored as an occupation string on the itemization, not a NAICS sector and not every related job title. 98 donors and 99 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list or a company tree. Blank, abbreviated, and alternate spellings are other keys.

Mean about $243 per receipt and $246 per donor are $24,100/99 and $24,100/98. They are not typical pay and not a median gift. 98 harvested donors — a broader stored-label cluster is the harvested headcount for this join, not employment in Birmingham.

This URL (/ties/physician-donors-in-al-birmingham/) is only Physician in Birmingham, AL. The city hub still mixes every employer string into $100,682,535. The industry hub still mixes every city. This JSON is the intersection copy only.

Unitemized gifts and other FEC files

Omitted: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, committee-to-committee transfers, and non-individual sources. Omitted: every city except BIRMINGHAM. Omitted: every grouping except PHYSICIAN. Included: $24,100 on 99 receipts from 98 donors.

An AL address does not mean the recipient was an Alabama candidate. Donor city is not recipient city. $24,100 is not allocated by office or party on this page. Those splits are not in the packet.

Raw integers behind the prose: grouping dollars 24,100, grouping receipts 99, harvested donors 98, city dollars 100,682,535, city-field contributions 262,780. Share under 0.1% uses only the two dollar totals. Remainder of the city book is $100,658,435 (more than 99.9%).

How to cite the pair

Citation template: employer/industry grouping PHYSICIAN, contributor city Birmingham, AL, $24,100 on 99 itemized individual contributions from 98 donors, against a city-wide $100,682,535 on 262,780 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Birmingham, AL hub, the Physician industry page, Alabama campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control.

Per-receipt mean about $243 is 24,100/99. Per-donor mean about $246 is 24,100/98. Receipts (99) and donors (98) differ when the same harvested donor appears on more than one itemized line. Both counts are packet facts.

Birmingham × Physician: dollars versus rows

Dollars and rows can move in different directions in other joins; here they are simply $24,100 and 99 for the grouping, $100,682,535 and 262,780 for the city. under 0.1% uses dollars. A receipt share would use 99 and 262,780 as a raw ratio of packet counts, still not unique people.

98 harvested donors — a broader stored-label cluster produced the grouping file in Birmingham. Repeat itemizations explain why receipts (99) and donors (98) can differ. Both numbers are in the packet; both should be quoted.

Alabama pages still mix Birmingham with every other AL city and mix PHYSICIAN with every other grouping. This tie does not. A citation that names $24,100 must also name Birmingham, AL and Physician, or it has described a hub.

Questions

How much did Physician donors in Birmingham, AL give?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing industry grouping PHYSICIAN and city BIRMINGHAM total $24,100 across 99 receipts from 98 donors in this extract. That is the city-and-industry join, not Birmingham, AL's all-industry book of $100,682,535 on 262,780 contributions. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Labels are filer-entered.

Does Physician in Birmingham include every related job title?

No. PHYSICIAN is the exact stored string on the itemization. Other employer spellings, parent names, and related job titles are other keys and are omitted from $24,100. 98 donors and 99 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not map the field to a standardized occupation list or NAICS sector.

What share of Birmingham, AL itemized money is Physician?

$24,100 is under 0.1% of the $100,682,535 Birmingham, AL city book (262,780 city-field contributions). A thin share usually means other employer strings dominate the city tape, not that the grouping is absent from Birmingham. Quote both dollars when citing the join. Do not upgrade under 0.1% into a sector ranking or an Alabama share.

Do Physician donations in Birmingham fund federal spending there?

No. These figures are FEC individual contributions, not USAspending awards. $24,100 does not become a contract or assistance award because both datasets can mention Birmingham. Different statutes, different forms. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Filings remain on FEC.gov.