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Is Planning Commission

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a planning commission in the Other Transaction IDV vendor site details. It marks the presence of this government-entity type on the record rather than describing the award itself. Example values such as 0 typically indicate false, not selected, or absent depending on the dataset encoding.

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__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isPlanningCommission
Title
Is Planning Commission
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isPlanningCommission
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a planning commission in the Other Transaction IDV vendor site details. It marks the presence of this government-entity type on the record rather than describing the award itself. Example values such as 0 typically indicate false, not selected, or absent depending on the dataset encoding.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards linked to planning commissions, which can matter for market segmentation, entity-type profiling, and compliance or jurisdictional reviews. It is useful when assessing which kinds of public or quasi-public organizations are appearing as vendor sites in Other Transaction IDVs.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 records where the vendor site is a planning commission
  • Segment awards by vendor government-entity type
  • Support compliance or jurisdictional analysis of vendor categories

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the extract's code set
  • Using this field alone to infer the vendor's full organizational type

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses only after confirming the underlying encoding. For example, filter on the value that represents true or selected in your dataset, and if the field is stored as a string or code, compare against the observed code rather than assuming numeric semantics.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isPlanningCommission AS is_planning_commission
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isPlanningCommission IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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