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Is Small Agricultural Cooperative

Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a small agricultural cooperative. It is a classification attribute within the vendor’s business type information, not a performance or award outcome measure.

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__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Title
Is Small Agricultural Cooperative
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Description
Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a small agricultural cooperative. It is a classification attribute within the vendor’s business type information, not a performance or award outcome measure.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards to suppliers that qualify as small agricultural cooperatives for socioeconomic, market structure, and small-business reporting. It can support compliance reviews, vendor segmentation, and analysis of how often this vendor category receives federal procurement dollars.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
FPDS XML Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative'.

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 small agricultural cooperatives
  • Count obligation totals by vendor business type
  • Support socioeconomic and small business reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Interpreting 0 as a definitive no when the value may also represent not reported in some extracts
  • Using this field alone to classify all small business status without checking related vendor type indicators

Query Guidance

Filter on the flag value that represents yes in your extract, and explicitly test for nulls separately. In SQL, combine this field with other vendor type flags or descriptions when validating classifications, for example WHERE isSmallAgriculturalCooperative = 1, while also reviewing NULL and nonstandard coded values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative AS is_small_agricultural_cooperative
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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