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Is Federal Government

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a federal government entity in the Other Transaction IDV record. A value such as 0 typically means no, while the paired code or true/false value indicates the site is federal government.

Family: Other Transaction IDV
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__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__federalGovernment__isFederalGovernment
Title
Is Federal Government
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/federalGovernment/isFederalGovernment
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a federal government entity in the Other Transaction IDV record. A value such as 0 typically means no, while the paired code or true/false value indicates the site is federal government.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts distinguish federal government vendors from commercial, nonprofit, or other entity types when reviewing Other Transaction IDVs. It is useful for compliance checks, vendor segmentation, and understanding whether an award was associated with an intra-governmental or government-related supplier relationship.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__federalGovernment__isFederalGovernment
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/federalGovernment/isFederalGovernment
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/federalGovernment/isFederalGovernment' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__federalGovernment__isFederalGovernment'.

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 Other Transaction IDVs to government-entity vendor sites
  • Segment awards by vendor entity type for compliance review
  • Validate vendor classification against other business type indicators

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the field is always a strict boolean when the source may use coded values
  • Using it alone to classify the entire vendor without checking related vendor business type fields

Query Guidance

In SQL, filter on the affirmative value only after confirming the dataset encoding, for example WHERE isFederalGovernment IN ('Y', 1, 'true') or the equivalent code in your extract. When building analytics, coalesce and normalize the field to a common boolean representation, and join or compare it with related vendor type fields to avoid misclassification.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__federalGovernment__isFederalGovernment AS is_federal_government
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__federalGovernment__isFederalGovernment IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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