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Is School of Forestry

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is a school of forestry. In FPDS, this is a subtype attribute within the vendor's type-of-educational-entity 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__typeOfEducationalEntity__isSchoolOfForestry
Title
Is School of Forestry
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isSchoolOfForestry
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is a school of forestry. In FPDS, this is a subtype attribute within the vendor's type-of-educational-entity classification.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards associated with a specific educational institution type, which can matter for socioeconomic segmentation, institutional profile analysis, and sector-specific reporting. It can also support compliance and policy reviews where awards to educational entities are examined separately from commercial vendors.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 involving forestry schools
  • Segment vendor site records by educational entity subtype
  • Support compliance or institutional category reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking source encoding
  • Using this field as a proxy for all educational institutions

Query Guidance

Filter on the underlying flag value or coded indicator as stored in the dataset, and verify whether 0/1, Y/N, or another code system is used. When aggregating, exclude nulls only if you intend to count confirmed non-matches; otherwise preserve nulls as unknown. Example pattern: WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isSchoolOfForestry = 1

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isSchoolOfForestry AS is_school_of_forestry
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isSchoolOfForestry IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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