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Is Minority Institution

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is identified as a minority institution within the typeOfEducationalEntity grouping. It flags a specific educational-entity characteristic at the vendor-site level, not a general vendor attribute.

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__typeOfEducationalEntity__isMinorityInstitution
Title
Is Minority Institution
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isMinorityInstitution
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is identified as a minority institution within the typeOfEducationalEntity grouping. It flags a specific educational-entity characteristic at the vendor-site level, not a general vendor attribute.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of awards to minority-serving educational institutions and related equity, outreach, and compliance reviews. It can be used to segment vendor populations, measure participation patterns, and validate reporting against socioeconomic or institutional set-asides.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 vendors classified as minority institutions
  • Count or compare awards by institutional category
  • Support compliance and outreach reporting for educational entities

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag applies to the parent vendor rather than the specific vendor site
  • Treating coded values as universally boolean without checking the extract's encoding

Query Guidance

In SQL, filter explicitly on the affirmative representation used in your extract, such as = 1 or = 'Y', after verifying the stored domain. When aggregating, group by the normalized flag value and coalesce nulls separately so missing data is not counted as false.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isMinorityInstitution AS is_minority_institution
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isMinorityInstitution IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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