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Is Airport Authority

Boolean/code flag indicating whether the vendor’s governmental entity type is an airport authority. It identifies vendor site records classified under airport-authority ownership or governance, rather than describing the award itself.

Family: Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority
Title
Is Airport Authority
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority
Description
Boolean/code flag indicating whether the vendor’s governmental entity type is an airport authority. It identifies vendor site records classified under airport-authority ownership or governance, rather than describing the award itself.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards going to airport authorities, which can matter for transportation, infrastructure, aviation, and quasi-governmental spending analysis. It also supports segmentation of recipient populations when studying federal obligations to public authorities versus private firms or other government entities.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority
FPDS XML Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Filter awards to airport authority recipients
  • Segment obligations by recipient government-entity subtype
  • Support compliance or oversight analyses of quasi-governmental vendors

Common Mistakes

  • Interpreting the flag as describing the place of performance rather than the vendor entity type
  • Assuming every non-1 value means false without verifying the dataset’s coding rules

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses to isolate airport authority records, but first verify whether the dataset stores boolean values as 1/0, true/false, or text codes. When aggregating, group by the normalized flag and pair it with other vendor-site government-entity indicators to avoid misclassification.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority AS is_airport_authority
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

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