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Is Tribal College

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a tribal college within the typeOfEducationalEntity grouping. It records the presence of that specific educational-entity attribute on the vendor site record.

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__isTribalCollege
Title
Is Tribal College
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isTribalCollege
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a tribal college within the typeOfEducationalEntity grouping. It records the presence of that specific educational-entity attribute on the vendor site record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards associated with tribal colleges for socioeconomic, institutional, and education-sector reporting. It supports segmentation of vendor bases, review of set-aside or outreach activity, and compliance or diversity analyses tied to federally recognized educational entities.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 vendor records for tribal college participation
  • Segment awards by educational-entity subtype
  • Support diversity and institutional reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means explicitly no rather than unknown or not captured
  • Using the field without checking related typeOfEducationalEntity indicators

Query Guidance

In SQL, filter on the stored true value used by the extract and handle nulls separately, for example with WHERE field = 1 or WHERE field IN ('Y','1','true') depending on encoding. Include companion fields from typeOfEducationalEntity when validating classification, and do not treat null as equivalent to false unless the business rule explicitly defines it that way.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isTribalCollege AS is_tribal_college
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isTribalCollege IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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