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Is Veterinary Hospital

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as a veterinary hospital. It is a vendor line-of-business attribute stored under vendor site details for an Other Transaction Award record.

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__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital
Title
Is Veterinary Hospital
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLineOfBusiness/isVeterinaryHospital
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is classified as a veterinary hospital. It is a vendor line-of-business attribute stored under vendor site details for an Other Transaction Award record.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts segment awards by vendor type and identify transactions involving veterinary health providers. It can support market research, spend profiling, and compliance or policy reviews where the nature of the supplier’s business line is relevant.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

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 tied to veterinary hospital vendors
  • Segment vendor population by healthcare-related line of business
  • Support compliance or policy analysis for specialized provider categories

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means missing instead of false/not applicable
  • Using the flag as a proxy for broader veterinary or animal-service activity beyond the vendor site classification

Query Guidance

Use explicit boolean logic or code matching based on observed source values, for example WHERE isVeterinaryHospital = 1 or WHERE isVeterinaryHospital IN ('Y','1','true'). If the field can be null, handle null separately from false to avoid dropping unclassified records.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital AS is_veterinary_hospital
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isVeterinaryHospital IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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