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Is Us Government Entity

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as a U.S. government entity in the business or organization type hierarchy. In FPDS, this identifies the entity type associated with the vendor site record rather than the award itself.

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__isUSGovernmentEntity
Title
Is Us Government Entity
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isUSGovernmentEntity
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as a U.S. government entity in the business or organization type hierarchy. In FPDS, this identifies the entity type associated with the vendor site record rather than the award itself.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts separate federal, state, local, and other government entities from private-sector vendors when reviewing award data. It is useful for compliance checks, market segmentation, intergovernmental transaction analysis, and excluding government-to-government activity from commercial vendor metrics.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 out U.S. government entities from vendor universe analyses
  • Segment awards by government versus non-government vendors
  • Support compliance and transaction-type reviews

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as a dollar-weighted measure instead of a classification
  • Assuming one value format without checking the dataset's observed codes

Query Guidance

Use the field as a WHERE-clause filter on the stored code, e.g. WHERE isUSGovernmentEntity = '1' or = 'Y' depending on the dataset's encoding. Validate the actual code set in the source extract, and join to related vendor-business-type fields if you need the human-readable category instead of the raw flag.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity AS is_us_government_entity
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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