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State of Incorporation

The state in which the vendor organization is legally incorporated, as reported in the Vendor Site Details portion of the award record. It is a string attribute and may appear as a two-letter state abbreviation or similar coded value, such as "SC".

Family: Other Transaction Award
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: string
Semantic Type: attribute
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__stateOfIncorporation
Title
State of Incorporation
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionAward/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorOrganizationFactors/stateOfIncorporation
Description
The state in which the vendor organization is legally incorporated, as reported in the Vendor Site Details portion of the award record. It is a string attribute and may appear as a two-letter state abbreviation or similar coded value, such as "SC".
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify where a contractor is formally registered, which can support geographic profiling, ownership and entity analysis, and vendor segmentation across award data. It is useful when comparing incorporation state to place of performance, headquarters location, or socioeconomic and market concentration patterns.
Example Value
SC
Observed Non-Null Count
25,701

FPDS Compare

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

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Grouping vendors by incorporation state
  • Comparing incorporation state to award geography or place of performance
  • Filtering records for vendors incorporated in a specific state

Common Mistakes

  • Confusing incorporation state with headquarters or mailing address state
  • Aggregating without normalizing abbreviations, blanks, and nonstandard codes

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses for state-level filtering and in GROUP BY for incorporation-based rollups. Normalize values to standard state codes where possible, and join to vendor or address tables only if you need to compare incorporation state against other location attributes.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__stateOfIncorporation AS state_of_incorporation
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__stateOfIncorporation IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Top values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__stateOfIncorporation AS value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionAward__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorOrganizationFactors__stateOfIncorporation IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY value
ORDER BY record_count DESC
LIMIT 25

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.