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Is Hispanic American Owned Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Hispanic American-owned business in the record's socio-economic indicators. It is part of the vendor site details hierarchy and reflects a specific minority-owned status classification.

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__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Hispanic American Owned Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Hispanic American-owned business in the record's socio-economic indicators. It is part of the vendor site details hierarchy and reflects a specific minority-owned status classification.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of socio-economic participation, diversity-related set-asides, and supplier-base composition in federal procurement. It helps analysts measure awards involving Hispanic American-owned firms and assess compliance or program reach across agencies, contracts, and time periods.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness'.

Use Cases

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

Common Usage

  • Segment awards to Hispanic American-owned vendors
  • Measure socio-economic participation rates
  • Filter or join on minority-owned business classifications

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the dataset's coding convention
  • Counting nulls as non-Hispanic American-owned rather than unknown or unreported

Query Guidance

Use this field as a filter or grouping attribute after normalizing its code values. In SQL, map the observed true indicators to a consistent flag, exclude or separately classify null/unknown values, and avoid mixing coded and textual representations without validation.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_hispanic_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isHispanicAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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