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Is Asian Pacific American Owned Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified as an Asian Pacific American owned business in the award record's vendor socio-economic indicators. A value of 1/true generally indicates the status is present; 0/false indicates it is not, though analysts should confirm the local coding pattern in the dataset.

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__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Asian Pacific American Owned Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is identified as an Asian Pacific American owned business in the award record's vendor socio-economic indicators. A value of 1/true generally indicates the status is present; 0/false indicates it is not, though analysts should confirm the local coding pattern in the dataset.
Business Meaning
This field supports socio-economic segmentation, diversity and inclusion reporting, and supplier-base analysis across federal awards. It is useful for measuring the extent to which contracting activity reaches Asian Pacific American owned businesses and for evaluating policy, outreach, or set-aside outcomes.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness'.

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 awarded to Asian Pacific American owned businesses
  • Calculate dollar obligations by socio-economic ownership category
  • Track diversity participation trends over time or by agency

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 means confirmed non-Asian Pacific American ownership rather than simply not flagged
  • Treating the field as a firm-level certification instead of a record-level indicator

Query Guidance

Use a boolean or code-aware predicate such as WHERE field = 1, or normalize to true/false with CASE WHEN after verifying actual stored values. If the dataset includes descriptions or multiple code formats, coalesce across observed representations and exclude nulls separately so counts are not understated.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_asian_pacific_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isAsianPacificAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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