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Is Us Government Entity

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is a U.S. government entity in the Other Transaction Award vendor business type structure. It classifies the vendor's organizational status for the recorded site or business-type entry rather than describing the award itself.

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__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity
Title
Is Us Government Entity
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isUSGovernmentEntity
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is a U.S. government entity in the Other Transaction Award vendor business type structure. It classifies the vendor's organizational status for the recorded site or business-type entry rather than describing the award itself.
Business Meaning
This field matters when analysts need to separate government entities from private-sector or nonprofit vendors in Other Transaction Awards. It supports compliance checks, vendor mix analysis, and segmentation of awards by recipient type, which can affect how federal spending is interpreted and benchmarked.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isUSGovernmentEntity
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isUSGovernmentEntity' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity'.

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • exclude or isolate awards to U.S. government entities
  • segment vendor population by recipient type
  • support compliance and reporting checks on awardee composition

Common Mistakes

  • using the flag as a direct measure of subcontractor or downstream beneficiary status
  • assuming a zero value always means non-government without checking whether the field is null, unknown, or differently coded

Query Guidance

Filter on the stored boolean/code value exactly as populated in the source data, and confirm whether '0' means false, no, or an unpopulated coded state in the specific extract. Use this field in joins or groupings only after validating the encoding, and pair it with vendor type descriptors when available for cleaner reporting.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity AS is_us_government_entity
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isUSGovernmentEntity IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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