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Is American Indian Owned

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is reported as American Indian owned in the award record's vendor socioeconomic indicators. It is a classification flag tied to the vendor site details hierarchy, not a narrative description of ownership.

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__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isAmericanIndianOwned
Title
Is American Indian Owned
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isAmericanIndianOwned
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is reported as American Indian owned in the award record's vendor socioeconomic indicators. It is a classification flag tied to the vendor site details hierarchy, not a narrative description of ownership.
Business Meaning
This field supports socioeconomic set-aside analysis, small business and diversity reporting, and monitoring of procurement awards to American Indian owned firms. Analysts use it to measure participation, compare vendor mix across agencies or periods, and support compliance or policy reviews.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 involving American Indian owned vendors
  • Calculate socioeconomic participation rates
  • Segment obligations by vendor ownership category

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag is always a strict boolean rather than a coded field
  • Treating null or missing values as equivalent to false

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses after confirming the code set, for example `WHERE isAmericanIndianOwned = '1'` or the equivalent true value in your extract. For rollups, normalize all observed representations to a single boolean logic and group with nulls separately from explicit no values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isAmericanIndianOwned AS is_american_indian_owned
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isAmericanIndianOwned IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isAmericanIndianOwned AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isAmericanIndianOwned 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.