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Installation Unique

A NASA-specific identifier for the installation associated with the award record. It stores a string value that identifies the installation in NASA award reporting data.

Family: Award
Category: General
Data Type: string
Semantic Type: attribute
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique
Title
Installation Unique
FPDS Path
award/agencySpecificAwardElements/NASASpecificAwardElements/installationUnique
Description
A NASA-specific identifier for the installation associated with the award record. It stores a string value that identifies the installation in NASA award reporting data.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish which NASA installation is associated with a procurement action, supporting facility-level spend analysis, organizational rollups, and comparisons across NASA sites. It is useful when awards need to be grouped beyond the agency level to understand where obligations are being managed or reported.
Example Value
62
Observed Non-Null Count
119,303

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique
FPDS XML Path
award/agencySpecificAwardElements/NASASpecificAwardElements/installationUnique
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'award/agencySpecificAwardElements/NASASpecificAwardElements/installationUnique' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building

Common Usage

  • Grouping NASA awards by installation
  • Filtering records for site-level analysis
  • Linking award records to NASA facility or organization reference tables

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the value is a human-readable installation name
  • Using it as a universal FPDS field outside NASA-specific records

Query Guidance

Select and group by this field when performing NASA installation-level analysis, and join to a lookup table if available to translate codes into readable installation names. In SQL, filter out nulls and distinct values first to understand the code space before aggregating obligations or counts.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique AS installation_unique
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

SELECT
    content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique AS value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__agencySpecificAwardElements__NASASpecificAwardElements__installationUnique IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY value
ORDER BY record_count DESC
LIMIT 25

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.