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Is Subchapter S Corporation

Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is a Subchapter S corporation in the vendor organization factors for an Other Transaction Award record. The value identifies the vendor's corporate tax/status classification as captured in FPDS, typically represented as a coded indicator such as 0/1 or false/true.

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__vendorOrganizationFactors__isSubchapterSCorporation
Title
Is Subchapter S Corporation
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/isSubchapterSCorporation
Description
Boolean flag indicating whether the vendor is a Subchapter S corporation in the vendor organization factors for an Other Transaction Award record. The value identifies the vendor's corporate tax/status classification as captured in FPDS, typically represented as a coded indicator such as 0/1 or false/true.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts segment vendors by corporate form, which can matter for vendor profiling, market structure analysis, and certain compliance or eligibility reviews. It may also support studies of award distribution across entity types and comparisons of contracting patterns among different business structures.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

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 vendors classified as Subchapter S corporations
  • Segment vendor populations by organizational tax status
  • Analyze award patterns by entity type

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the field is a textual description instead of a coded boolean flag
  • Filtering on 0/1 without confirming the dataset's actual true/false encoding

Query Guidance

Use explicit code handling in SQL, for example `WHERE isSubchapterSCorporation = 1` only after confirming that 1 represents true in your extract. If values are stored as character codes or nullable flags, normalize them with CASE logic and inspect distinct values before analysis.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isSubchapterSCorporation AS is_subchapter_s_corporation
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__isSubchapterSCorporation IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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