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Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor on the award is a women-owned small business organized as a joint venture. It flags the socioeconomic status recorded in the vendor site details for that award.

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__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor on the award is a women-owned small business organized as a joint venture. It flags the socioeconomic status recorded in the vendor site details for that award.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards involving women-owned small business joint ventures, which is important for socioeconomic reporting, set-aside performance review, supplier diversity analysis, and compliance monitoring against program goals.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 women-owned small business joint ventures
  • Measure socioeconomic participation in procurement
  • Support compliance and reporting for vendor diversity programs

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming a false or null value means the vendor is not a women-owned small business joint venture
  • Using the field without checking the actual coded values present in the extract

Query Guidance

Use this field as a boolean/coded filter in SQL, for example WHERE isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness = 1 or = 'Y' depending on the source encoding. When aggregating, group by the normalized indicator and exclude or separately track nulls to avoid mixing unreported values with negative responses.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_joint_venture_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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