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Is Native American Owned Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a Native American owned business within the vendor's socio-economic indicators. A value such as 0 typically means the condition is not met, while nonzero/true values indicate that it is met, depending on how the extract encodes flags.

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__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Native American Owned Business
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified in FPDS as a Native American owned business within the vendor's socio-economic indicators. A value such as 0 typically means the condition is not met, while nonzero/true values indicate that it is met, depending on how the extract encodes flags.
Business Meaning
This field supports socio-economic and diversity analysis of federal awards, including tracking participation by Native American owned businesses, evaluating set-aside and outreach outcomes, and measuring compliance with small business and socioeconomic procurement goals. It is useful for portfolio segmentation, supplier diversity reporting, and trend analysis across agencies or award types.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • count awards or vendors identified as Native American owned
  • segment obligation totals by socio-economic ownership status
  • filter procurement records for diversity and compliance reporting

Common Mistakes

  • assuming the flag is validated legal proof of ownership
  • treating null, 0, and false as equivalent without checking the dataset encoding

Query Guidance

In SQL, filter on the affirmative representation used in your dataset, for example `= 1`, `= 'Y'`, or `= TRUE`, after confirming the actual encoding from sample values. Use `COALESCE` only when you intentionally want to treat null as not indicated, and pair this field with other socio-economic indicators when building summary counts.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_native_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isNativeAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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