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Is Service Related Disabled Veteran Owned Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a service-disabled veteran-owned business at the vendor site level. It reflects the socio-economic status recorded for that vendor location in 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__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Service Related Disabled Veteran Owned Business
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a service-disabled veteran-owned business at the vendor site level. It reflects the socio-economic status recorded for that vendor location in the award record.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of federal spending directed to service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, which is relevant for socio-economic goal tracking, set-aside compliance, and supplier diversity reporting. It also helps segment awards by vendor ownership status to evaluate program reach and distribution of contract opportunities.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 service-disabled veteran-owned businesses
  • Calculate spend or count metrics by veteran-owned status
  • Support compliance and diversity reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag reflects the prime contractor entity rather than the vendor site record
  • Comparing values without checking whether the source uses numeric or text codes

Query Guidance

Filter explicitly on the stored code for a positive indication, after confirming the dataset's encoding. Example pattern: WHERE isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness IN (1, '1', 'Y', 'Yes'); when aggregating, group on normalized flag values and exclude nulls separately if needed.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness AS is_service_related_disabled_veteran_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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