FEC individual gifts: Surgeon in 2010

Why Surgeon and 2010 share a page

Occupation and cycle are independent fields on the same itemized rows. Joining them does not create new receipts. It hides rows that fail either test. After both tests, Surgeon in 2010 shows $1,320,928, 2,064 contributions, and 1,195 donors. The occupation extract without a cycle filter is $18,386,780.

Because labels are filer-entered, SURGEON is not a controlled vocabulary. A person can type SURGEON on one gift and a longer title on the next. Only the rows that match this string enter $1,320,928. See Surgeon donations for the string’s all-cycle dollars and 2010 election cycle for the 2010 mix of every occupation.

Occupation-wide dollars for Surgeon

The occupation-wide total for SURGEON on this extract is $18,386,780 ($18.4 million). That figure includes every indexed cycle for the same string, not only 2010. $1,320,928 is the 2010 slice (7.2%). SURGEON is the exact occupation string on the itemized receipt. Orthopaedic, plastic, oral, and other specialty spellings stay on their own occupation pages. This join does not recode those specialties into SURGEON, and it does not stand in for every physician who operates.

SURGEON is not recoded to a Standard Occupational Classification code on this page. Readers who want SOC or BLS employment counts need those agencies. FEC occupation is a free-text field. $18,386,780 inherits that messiness. The 2010 filter does not clean it.

The even-year window that holds $1.3 million

The 2010 value is the FEC two-year election cycle that closes on the 2010 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, Surgeon accounts for $1,320,928 on 2,064 contributions from 1,195 donors.

The 2010 filter is the FEC cycle code on the aggregate, not a news-cycle. Primary, runoff, and general dates inside the window are not split in this packet. $1,320,928 is the window sum. Do not allocate it across months or offices without another table.

Donor identity versus contribution rows for SURGEON

2,064 contributions and 1,195 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. 2,064 divided by 1,195 is the mean lines per donor in this cell; $1,320,928 divided by 1,195 is about $1,105 per donor; $1,320,928 divided by 2,064 is about $640 per line. Means are not medians. Large gifts pull the mean up. The packet does not publish a median.

Repeat the units when you quote: $1,320,928 itemized individual contributions, 2,064 lines, 1,195 unique donors, occupation string SURGEON, FEC cycle 2010. Dropping the units is how a join gets rewritten as a headline about an industry bloc.

A complete citation names occupation SURGEON, cycle 2010, dollars $1,320,928, contribution lines 2,064, and unique donors 1,195. 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 2,064 as people. Keep all five tokens.

Caveats that travel with $1,320,928

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 Surgeon as a profession acted in concert in 2010.

Nothing on this page assigns a motive. Itemized receipts are legal disclosures. 1,195 people who typed SURGEON in 2010 produced $1,320,928. That sentence is complete. Adding “because” requires a source this packet does not contain.

Surgeon donations is the all-cycle table for this string. 2010 election cycle is the all-occupation table for 2010. All occupations is the string inventory. All FEC ties is the join inventory. None of those pages authorizes adding $1,320,928 to a USAspending obligation total or ranking Surgeon as more influential than another title.

Questions

How much Surgeon money shows up in 2010 on FEC.gov?

Itemized individual contributions with occupation SURGEON total $1,320,928 in the 2010 FEC cycle. LobbyVault counts 2,064 contributions and 1,195 unique donors in that cell. The occupation-wide total for the same string on this extract is $18,386,780, so 2010 is 7.2% of that roll-up. Figures come from FEC.gov aggregates. Labels are filer-entered.

How does $1,320,928 relate to $18,386,780?

No. $1,320,928 is the 2010 slice only. The occupation hub still shows $18,386,780 across the extract. This page is a join: occupation string plus even-year cycle. It is not a restatement of Surgeon donations and not a restatement of 2010 election cycle. Adding other cycles here would invent dollars the packet does not list.

What do 1,195 donors and 2,064 lines mean?

The join lists 1,195 unique donors and 2,064 contribution lines for SURGEON in 2010. A person can give more than once, so lines exceed donors. About $1,105 per donor and $640 per line are means from $1,320,928, not medians and not typical gifts. Name matching can split or merge people. This is not a job-census headcount.

Is SURGEON a recoded occupation category?

No. The filter is the exact occupation string SURGEON 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 Surgeon donations for this key’s all-cycle table and all FEC ties for other joins. Cite FEC.gov.