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Is Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business in the award record. It is a vendor socioeconomic status indicator captured at the vendor site level within an Other Transaction Award.

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__isEconomicallyDisadvantagedWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isEconomicallyDisadvantagedWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business in the award record. It is a vendor socioeconomic status indicator captured at the vendor site level within an Other Transaction Award.
Business Meaning
This field is used to measure and monitor procurement participation by economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses and to support supplier diversity, socioeconomic reporting, and policy compliance analysis. It helps analysts segment awards and assess whether set-aside, outreach, or equity-related objectives are reaching the intended vendor population.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

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 to economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses
  • Calculate socioeconomic vendor shares by agency, product/service line, or period
  • Support compliance and diversity reporting across award portfolios

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming a null or blank value means the vendor is not EDWOSB without checking source encoding
  • Using this field as a dollar-value measure instead of a binary classification

Query Guidance

Use it in WHERE clauses or CASE expressions to isolate EDWOSB vendors, and pair it with award amount, agency, and time filters for reporting. In SQL, explicitly handle nulls and code values, for example by normalizing to 1/0 only after confirming the extract's encoding and any companion socioeconomic fields.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isEconomicallyDisadvantagedWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_economically_disadvantaged_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isEconomicallyDisadvantagedWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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