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Is Women Owned

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor at the IDV site is identified as women-owned. In FPDS, this is a socioeconomic status flag stored under vendor site details and may appear as a numeric code such as 0/1 rather than a textual yes/no value.

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__isWomenOwned
Title
Is Women Owned
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isWomenOwned
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor at the IDV site is identified as women-owned. In FPDS, this is a socioeconomic status flag stored under vendor site details and may appear as a numeric code such as 0/1 rather than a textual yes/no value.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of awards and obligations to women-owned businesses, including socioeconomic set-aside monitoring, supplier diversity reporting, and compliance with procurement policy goals. It is useful for segmenting vendor populations and evaluating how contract activity is distributed across ownership categories.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Identify women-owned vendors in an IDV population
  • Calculate obligations or counts by socioeconomic status
  • Support compliance and diversity reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means no and 1 always means yes without checking the dataset's coded values
  • Using this field as a proxy for vendor-wide status when it is site-level data

Query Guidance

Filter on the observed true value after confirming the code set, and use explicit null handling for unknown or missing records. Example pattern: WHERE isWomenOwned = 1; if the field is stored as text or has multiple coded states, inspect distinct values first and map them before analysis.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwned AS is_women_owned
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwned IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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