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Is Veterinary Hospital

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor’s line of business is a veterinary hospital. It is a classification attribute on the vendor site record under the IDV vendor profile, and should be treated as a flag rather than 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__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital
Title
Is Veterinary Hospital
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLineOfBusiness/isVeterinaryHospital
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor’s line of business is a veterinary hospital. It is a classification attribute on the vendor site record under the IDV vendor profile, and should be treated as a flag rather than a narrative description.
Business Meaning
This field supports vendor segmentation by specialty healthcare service type and can help analysts identify awards or vendor relationships involving veterinary hospital providers. It is useful for market research, supplier diversity reviews, and compliance or spend analysis where veterinary service providers are a distinct category.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

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 IDV vendor records to veterinary hospital suppliers
  • Segment vendor populations by specialty healthcare line of business
  • Support compliance and market analysis for veterinary-related contracting

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as a text description instead of a boolean/coded indicator
  • Assuming null, blank, or 0 always have the same meaning across all extracts

Query Guidance

Use in WHERE clauses to isolate records where the indicator denotes true, and normalize coded values before analysis. Example pattern: WHERE isVeterinaryHospital IN ('1', 'Y', TRUE) after confirming the dataset’s encoding; if the field is stored as numeric, compare against the true code and document how nulls are handled.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital AS is_veterinary_hospital
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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