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Is Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a women-owned small business in the award record. It captures the socioeconomic status assertion stored at the vendor site detail level for the transaction.

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__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a women-owned small business in the award record. It captures the socioeconomic status assertion stored at the vendor site detail level for the transaction.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of small business participation, socioeconomic set-aside outcomes, and diversity-related procurement goals. It is used to measure how often women-owned small businesses receive awards and to segment obligations and awards by vendor ownership status.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
38,894

FPDS Compare

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

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 to women-owned small businesses
  • Filter transactions for socioeconomic performance reporting
  • Segment vendor populations by ownership status

Common Mistakes

  • Treating a null, blank, or unknown value as a definitive no
  • Mixing this flag with other socioeconomic indicators without checking each field separately

Query Guidance

Use this field as a filter or grouping flag in WHERE and CASE expressions, for example `WHERE isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IN (1, '1', 'Y')`. Validate the encoded values in your dataset first, and exclude nulls explicitly when you need a strict yes/no count.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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