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Is Community Development Corporation

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a community development corporation at the vendor-site level. It captures a specific organizational classification associated with the vendor's line of business record rather than the award action itself. Example values such as 0 typically indicate false, not selected, or no.

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__vendorLineOfBusiness__isCommunityDevelopmentCorporation
Title
Is Community Development Corporation
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLineOfBusiness/isCommunityDevelopmentCorporation
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a community development corporation at the vendor-site level. It captures a specific organizational classification associated with the vendor's line of business record rather than the award action itself. Example values such as 0 typically indicate false, not selected, or no.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards made to vendors that fall under a community development corporation classification, which can support socioeconomic reporting, vendor segmentation, and policy-oriented reviews. It is useful when assessing participation by mission-driven or community-based organizations across procurement activity.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 community development corporations
  • Segment vendor populations for socioeconomic analysis
  • Count or trend awards by vendor classification

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means a definitive no rather than a coded false/null representation
  • Using the flag without considering that it applies at the vendor-site level

Query Guidance

In SQL, use explicit value checks after confirming the coding scheme, for example WHERE isCommunityDevelopmentCorporation IN (1, 'Y', 'T') for affirmative records. When building summaries, group by the normalized flag and preserve nulls separately so missing data is not conflated with false values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isCommunityDevelopmentCorporation AS is_community_development_corporation
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isCommunityDevelopmentCorporation IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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