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Is Service Related Disabled Veteran Owned Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a service-disabled veteran-owned business in the FPDS record. It is stored under vendor socio-economic indicators for the IDV vendor site, and the observed value may be a binary indicator or a coded representation depending on the source extract.

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__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Service Related Disabled Veteran Owned Business
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a service-disabled veteran-owned business in the FPDS record. It is stored under vendor socio-economic indicators for the IDV vendor site, and the observed value may be a binary indicator or a coded representation depending on the source extract.
Business Meaning
This field supports socioeconomic and small business analysis in federal procurement, especially reporting on veteran-owned business participation and preference-program utilization. It is useful for tracking award distribution, compliance monitoring, and set-aside or diversity-spend segmentation at the vendor/site level.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 or vendors to service-disabled veteran-owned businesses
  • Calculate socioeconomic participation rates and spend shares
  • Segment IDVs by veteran-owned business status for compliance reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means false without confirming the dataset's code set
  • Using the field as a spend measure instead of a vendor classification flag

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses only after confirming the affirmative code in your extract. For example, filter on the value that represents true/yes and join or aggregate at the vendor site level; handle nulls and nonstandard codes explicitly rather than relying on implicit boolean casting.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness AS is_service_related_disabled_veteran_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isServiceRelatedDisabledVeteranOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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