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Is Small Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is classified as a small business in the IDV record. It captures the small-business status associated with the vendor site socio-economic indicators, not a narrative description.

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__isSmallBusiness
Title
Is Small Business
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor site is classified as a small business in the IDV record. It captures the small-business status associated with the vendor site socio-economic indicators, not a narrative description.
Business Meaning
This field supports small business participation analysis, socio-economic reporting, and compliance checks in federal procurement. Analysts use it to measure award share, set-aside performance, vendor mix, and trends in small-business utilization across vehicles and buying offices.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 for small-business vendors
  • Compute small-business award or obligation shares
  • Segment vendor base by socio-economic status

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means a clean no without checking the local code set
  • Using this field as the sole source for all small-business reporting without validating related indicators

Query Guidance

Inspect the actual stored values first, then filter explicitly for the small-business code used in your extract (for example, 1, 'Y', or TRUE). When aggregating, group by this flag only after normalizing nulls and confirming whether the field is record-level or vendor-site-level in your source.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isSmallBusiness AS is_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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