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Is Native American Owned Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a Native American owned business. It is a socioeconomic ownership flag stored under the vendor site details section of 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__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Native American Owned Business
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a Native American owned business. It is a socioeconomic ownership flag stored under the vendor site details section of the award record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards potentially involving Native American owned businesses for socioeconomic tracking, reporting, and policy compliance analysis. It supports evaluation of set-aside participation, diversity contracting patterns, and award distribution across ownership categories.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 Native American owned businesses
  • Aggregate socioeconomic participation by vendor ownership type
  • Support compliance and diversity reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming all non-1 values mean false without checking coding conventions
  • Using this field as a vendor master attribute without accounting for award-level reporting context

Query Guidance

Use this field as a boolean filter or grouping column after normalizing its coding to a consistent true/false representation. In SQL, explicitly handle nulls and coded values, for example by mapping 1/Y/true to true and 0/N/false to false, then filter on the normalized flag for analysis.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_native_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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