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Is Sub Continent Asian American Owned Business

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Subcontinent Asian American-owned business at the vendor site level. It captures a specific socio-economic ownership designation within the vendor socio-economic indicators group.

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__isSubContinentAsianAmericanOwnedBusiness
Title
Is Sub Continent Asian American Owned Business
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/minorityOwned/isSubContinentAsianAmericanOwnedBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor is identified as a Subcontinent Asian American-owned business at the vendor site level. It captures a specific socio-economic ownership designation within the vendor socio-economic indicators group.
Business Meaning
This field supports analysis of small business and socio-economic participation, set-aside performance, and diversity-related procurement reporting. It is useful for measuring awards to specific ownership categories and for comparing vendor participation across agencies, contract types, and time periods.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 vendors by Subcontinent Asian American-owned status
  • Calculate socio-economic participation rates in procurement portfolios
  • Support reporting on diversity, equity, and small business utilization

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming 0 always means no rather than possibly not reported or not applicable
  • Using this field alone to infer overall minority-owned status without checking related indicators

Query Guidance

In SQL, test the field against the observed affirmative code set in your data source, not just a single literal value, and exclude or separately handle nulls. For rate calculations, group by the flag and confirm whether the extract stores boolean values, numeric codes, or text codes before writing filters or joins.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isSubContinentAsianAmericanOwnedBusiness AS is_sub_continent_asian_american_owned_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__minorityOwned__isSubContinentAsianAmericanOwnedBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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