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Is Limited Liability Corporation

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a limited liability corporation (LLC). It is a vendor organization attribute stored under vendor site details for the award record.

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__vendorOrganizationFactors__isLimitedLiabilityCorporation
Title
Is Limited Liability Corporation
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/isLimitedLiabilityCorporation
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a limited liability corporation (LLC). It is a vendor organization attribute stored under vendor site details for the award record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts segment awards by vendor legal form, which can support socioeconomic profiling, vendor structure analysis, and compliance or market concentration reviews. It is also useful when comparing procurement patterns across organizational types or validating vendor identity attributes.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 LLC vendors
  • Profile vendor legal-entity mix across obligations
  • Join with vendor-level analytics and compliance screens

Common Mistakes

  • Using it as a measure of award type instead of vendor organization type
  • Assuming every non-1 value means false without checking the data encoding

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses to isolate LLC vendors, but first confirm the actual coded values in your dataset (for example, 1/0, Y/N, or populated/null). If the field is stored as a string or code, compare against the observed true value and account for nulls explicitly.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isLimitedLiabilityCorporation AS is_limited_liability_corporation
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isLimitedLiabilityCorporation IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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