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Is Veterinary College

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a veterinary college within the Other Transaction IDV vendor site details. It records a specific educational-entity classification for the site rather than a general vendor characteristic.

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__isVeterinaryCollege
Title
Is Veterinary College
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfEducationalEntity/isVeterinaryCollege
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a veterinary college within the Other Transaction IDV vendor site details. It records a specific educational-entity classification for the site rather than a general vendor characteristic.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts identify awards associated with veterinary colleges for sector, eligibility, and recipient-profile analysis. It can support segmentation of educational institutions, review of specialized research or training partnerships, and compliance or policy checks where institution type affects treatment or reporting.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

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

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 veterinary colleges
  • Segment educational institution recipients
  • Support compliance or policy review by institution type

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as a vendor-level attribute instead of a vendor-site attribute
  • Assuming 0 always means no without checking the source code semantics

Query Guidance

Use the field in WHERE clauses only after confirming the coded values in your extract; for boolean data, filter directly on the true/false representation, and for coded extracts, join or map to the description values before analysis. When aggregating, count distinct awards or vendor sites rather than raw rows if multiple site records can exist per award.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isVeterinaryCollege AS is_veterinary_college
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfEducationalEntity__isVeterinaryCollege IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

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