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Is Tribal College

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a tribal college within the educational-entity classification. It is a site-level attribute tied to the vendor record in the award data, not a broader organizational status. When populated, it supports identification of vendors associated with tribal colleges.

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__typeOfEducationalEntity__isTribalCollege
Title
Is Tribal College
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isTribalCollege
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a tribal college within the educational-entity classification. It is a site-level attribute tied to the vendor record in the award data, not a broader organizational status. When populated, it supports identification of vendors associated with tribal colleges.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards to tribal colleges for socioeconomic, education-sector, and targeted spending analyses. It can support reporting on federal support to institutions serving tribal communities, policy compliance reviews, and segmentation of educational recipients in procurement datasets.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 tribal colleges
  • Count or sum obligations to tribal-college vendors
  • Segment educational vendors by institution type

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag identifies the parent vendor rather than the specific site
  • Treating null or blank values as equivalent to false without checking data completeness

Query Guidance

Use the field as a boolean filter or grouped dimension after normalizing coded values, for example WHERE isTribalCollege IN ('1','Y',1,true). For analysis, combine it with award amounts and other vendor-site education flags to avoid misclassification and to separate true tribal-college records from missing or unreported values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isTribalCollege AS is_tribal_college
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isTribalCollege IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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