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Is Hispanic American Owned Business

Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as Hispanic American owned within the award's vendor socio-economic indicators. A value such as 0 typically means the condition is not met or not reported as true, while 1 indicates it is met.

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__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Hispanic American Owned Business
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as Hispanic American owned within the award's vendor socio-economic indicators. A value such as 0 typically means the condition is not met or not reported as true, while 1 indicates it is met.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of awards to Hispanic American owned businesses, including socio-economic participation, supplier diversity, and compliance or set-aside reporting. It is useful for tracking government procurement outcomes against small business and minority-owned business objectives.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Count or sum awards to Hispanic American owned businesses
  • Segment spend by socio-economic ownership category
  • Measure minority business participation in procurement

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag reflects verified legal ownership outside FPDS
  • Comparing it directly to text labels without checking coded values or nulls

Query Guidance

Filter on the flag value that represents true, and explicitly handle null or nonstandard codes. In SQL, use CASE or WHERE clauses against the stored boolean/code values, and verify whether 1/0, Y/N, or other encodings are present in the dataset before aggregating.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_hispanic_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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