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Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded flag showing whether the vendor identified on the IDV is a joint venture that qualifies as a women-owned small business. It records the socioeconomic status attached to the vendor site details rather than a contract action outcome.

Family: IDV
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__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag showing whether the vendor identified on the IDV is a joint venture that qualifies as a women-owned small business. It records the socioeconomic status attached to the vendor site details rather than a contract action outcome.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of small business and socioeconomic participation in federal procurement, including set-aside compliance, vendor diversity reporting, and award concentration by ownership type. It helps analysts identify whether a given IDV is associated with a joint venture structure that meets women-owned small business criteria.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 IDVs associated with women-owned small business joint ventures
  • Measure socioeconomic participation across vendor records
  • Support compliance and diversity reporting for procurement portfolios

Common Mistakes

  • Interpreting the flag as a contract-level status instead of a vendor site attribute
  • Assuming all false or blank values mean ineligibility rather than potentially missing data

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses only after confirming the coded values used in your dataset, for example comparing against the observed affirmative value such as 1 or 'Y'. When aggregating, count only explicit affirmative records and handle nulls separately so missing data is not mixed with true negatives.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_joint_venture_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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