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Is Hispanic American Owned Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Hispanic American owned business in the award record. In FPDS, this is a socio-economic indicator attached to the vendor site details for the Other Transaction Award contract detail.

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__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Hispanic American Owned Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Hispanic American owned business in the award record. In FPDS, this is a socio-economic indicator attached to the vendor site details for the Other Transaction Award contract detail.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of contracting with Hispanic American owned businesses, including diversity, equity, and small business participation monitoring. It is useful for reporting supplier composition, evaluating policy outcomes, and segmenting awards by ownership status.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Count awards or obligations involving Hispanic American owned businesses
  • Filter vendor populations for socio-economic diversity analysis
  • Compare award shares across ownership categories and periods

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming a 0 value means the vendor is not Hispanic American owned rather than simply not flagged in the record
  • Using the field as a substitute for external certification or present-day ownership verification

Query Guidance

Use it as a filter or grouping field after normalizing the coded values used in your extract. Example pattern: WHERE isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness IN ('1', 1, 'Y', 'true') for positive flags, and handle NULL or other non-affirmative values separately to distinguish absence of data from explicit negative values.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_hispanic_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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