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Is Small Agricultural Cooperative

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is classified as a small agricultural cooperative in the vendor business type structure for an IDV. In FPDS, this is a specific business-status attribute attached to the vendor site details, not a measure of contract performance or size in general.

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__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Title
Is Small Agricultural Cooperative
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is classified as a small agricultural cooperative in the vendor business type structure for an IDV. In FPDS, this is a specific business-status attribute attached to the vendor site details, not a measure of contract performance or size in general.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards associated with small agricultural cooperatives for socioeconomic and vendor-classification analysis. It supports targeting, compliance review, and segmentation of procurement activity by business structure.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
FPDS XML Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isSmallAgriculturalCooperative' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative'.

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 tied to small agricultural cooperatives
  • Count awards or vendors by business classification
  • Combine with other socioeconomic flags for segmentation

Common Mistakes

  • Interpreting it as a general small-business indicator
  • Using it without checking whether the extract stores it as a boolean, numeric code, or text flag

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses to isolate records where the cooperative flag indicates yes, and confirm the exact accepted value set in your extract before filtering. When aggregating, group by the normalized flag value and handle nulls separately to distinguish unknown from false.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative AS is_small_agricultural_cooperative
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isSmallAgriculturalCooperative IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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