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Is Sole Propreitorship

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor entity is a sole proprietorship at the listed vendor site. It captures the organization type classification associated with the award record and may appear as a binary indicator or coded value depending on the source extract.

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__isSolePropreitorship
Title
Is Sole Propreitorship
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSolePropreitorship
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor entity is a sole proprietorship at the listed vendor site. It captures the organization type classification associated with the award record and may appear as a binary indicator or coded value depending on the source extract.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards made to sole proprietors, which can be important for market composition analysis, small business research, socioeconomic segmentation, and vendor profile validation. It supports compliance and reporting questions where the legal form of the contractor affects eligibility, ownership characteristics, or procurement targeting.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Segment vendors by organizational form
  • Filter sole proprietorship awards for market analysis
  • Validate vendor business-type reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the extract's coding convention
  • Using this field alone to determine small business status or ownership type

Query Guidance

Use explicit predicates against the stored values, for example WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSolePropreitorship IN (1, '1', 'Y', 'true') after confirming the dataset's actual encoding. If the field is paired with a description or label column, join or inspect both to avoid misclassification.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSolePropreitorship AS is_sole_propreitorship
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSolePropreitorship IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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