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Is Airport Authority

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as an airport authority in the Other Transaction Award vendor site type-of-government entity structure. It identifies records where the vendor’s government-entity category includes this specific designation rather than describing the award or vendor in general.

Family: Other Transaction Award
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__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority
Title
Is Airport Authority
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as an airport authority in the Other Transaction Award vendor site type-of-government entity structure. It identifies records where the vendor’s government-entity category includes this specific designation rather than describing the award or vendor in general.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards involving airport authorities, which are often public or quasi-public entities with distinct governance, funding, and compliance characteristics. It is useful for segmentation by recipient type, jurisdictional analysis, and identifying transactions that may follow special statutory, oversight, or grant-like procurement patterns.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isAirportAuthority' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority'.

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 awards involving airport authorities
  • Segment vendor populations by government-entity type
  • Support compliance or recipient-type reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 means false in every extract without checking the data dictionary or actual values
  • Using this field as a proxy for the vendor’s legal structure rather than the site/entity classification

Query Guidance

In SQL, filter on the affirmative code or true value after confirming the extract’s representation, for example WHERE isAirportAuthority = 1 or WHERE isAirportAuthority = 'Y'. When building cohorts, combine this flag with related entity-type fields and handle NULL separately so absent data is not mistaken for a negative classification.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority AS is_airport_authority
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isAirportAuthority IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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