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Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor associated with the award is identified as a women-owned small business joint venture. It captures the record-level socio-economic designation stored in the vendor site details for the 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__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Joint Venture Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor associated with the award is identified as a women-owned small business joint venture. It captures the record-level socio-economic designation stored in the vendor site details for the Other Transaction Award.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of socio-economic participation, set-aside outcomes, and award distribution to women-owned small business joint ventures. It is useful for compliance review, supplier diversity reporting, 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__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness'.

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 awards involving women-owned small business joint ventures
  • Filter procurement data for supplier diversity reporting
  • Measure award counts or obligations by socio-economic category

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the flag means the vendor is individually women-owned rather than a joint venture designation
  • Treating a null or zero value as proof the vendor is not eligible rather than simply not reported

Query Guidance

Use equality or boolean tests against the observed coded values in the dataset, for example WHERE field = 1 or WHERE field IN ('Y','Yes'). If the data includes nulls, handle them explicitly and confirm the encoding in the source extract before standardizing the filter.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_joint_venture_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isJointVentureWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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