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Is Hospital

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is a hospital. It describes the vendor's line of business classification at the site level, not the award's place of performance or the contracting agency's healthcare mission.

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__vendorLineOfBusiness__isHospital
Title
Is Hospital
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorLineOfBusiness/isHospital
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is a hospital. It describes the vendor's line of business classification at the site level, not the award's place of performance or the contracting agency's healthcare mission.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards associated with hospital providers for spend analysis, healthcare vendor segmentation, socio-economic reviews, and oversight of transactions involving medical institutions. It is useful when isolating healthcare-related suppliers or examining obligation patterns to hospital entities across programs.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 or vendor sites classified as hospitals
  • Segment healthcare-related suppliers in spend analysis
  • Support compliance or market-concentration reviews involving medical institutions

Common Mistakes

  • Confusing vendor site classification with place of performance
  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the dataset encoding

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses to isolate hospital sites, for example `WHERE isHospital = 1` if the dataset uses 1/0 flags. If the coding is not confirmed, first profile distinct values and, when available, join to any description field or reference lookup before filtering.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isHospital AS is_hospital
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorLineOfBusiness__isHospital IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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