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Is Veterinary College

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is identified as a veterinary college within the educational-entity classification for the award record. It is a site-level attribute under vendor site details and may be stored as a flag or code value rather than a plain text label.

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__isVeterinaryCollege
Title
Is Veterinary College
FPDS Path
award/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isVeterinaryCollege
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is identified as a veterinary college within the educational-entity classification for the award record. It is a site-level attribute under vendor site details and may be stored as a flag or code value rather than a plain text label.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards made to veterinary colleges, which can be relevant for education, research, animal health, and institution-type segmentation. It supports reporting on spending directed to specialized academic institutions and can help distinguish this vendor category from other educational entities.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
111,509,025

FPDS Compare

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

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 veterinary colleges
  • Segment educational-entity vendor types
  • Support compliance or institution-type reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means a true negative without checking coding conventions
  • Using this field alone to infer whether the vendor is an educational institution

Query Guidance

Use explicit value checks based on the dataset's encoding, for example WHERE field = 1 for true if the flag is numeric, or WHERE field IN ('Y','Yes','1') if stored as text. When available, join or inspect the paired description field and apply null handling separately from false values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isVeterinaryCollege AS is_veterinary_college
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__award__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isVeterinaryCollege IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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