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Is Partnership or Limited Liability Partnership

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor entity recorded in the award is a partnership or a limited liability partnership. It is a vendor business-type attribute captured under vendor site details, not a contract action or performance measure.

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__businessOrOrganizationType__isPartnershipOrLimitedLiabilityPartnership
Title
Is Partnership or Limited Liability Partnership
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorBusinessTypes/businessOrOrganizationType/isPartnershipOrLimitedLiabilityPartnership
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor entity recorded in the award is a partnership or a limited liability partnership. It is a vendor business-type attribute captured under vendor site details, not a contract action or performance measure.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards made to partnership-based entities, which can matter for vendor segmentation, ownership structure analysis, socioeconomic or organizational profiling, and compliance reviews that depend on vendor legal form. It is useful when comparing award patterns across business types or validating vendor classification data.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 to partnership or LLP vendors
  • Segment vendor population by legal organization type
  • Validate vendor business-type coding across records

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming the field describes the prime contractor's performance status rather than legal business form
  • Treating the value as text without checking the actual encoded representations in the source data

Query Guidance

Use this field as a filter or grouping flag in WHERE or CASE logic after confirming the stored code values. Example pattern: `WHERE isPartnershipOrLimitedLiabilityPartnership IN ('1','Y',1)` or map the observed codes to a standardized boolean before aggregating.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isPartnershipOrLimitedLiabilityPartnership AS is_partnership_or_limited_liability_partnership
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorBusinessTypes__businessOrOrganizationType__isPartnershipOrLimitedLiabilityPartnership IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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