FEW specification

Full Time Equivalent (FTE) : Field

Definition

The proportion of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) standard week that a member of staff is contracted to work. 1.0 FTE being what the organisation deems to be ‘full time’.

Responses should be between 0.01 and 1.5. For example:

• If a member of staff works full time, their FTE is 1.0.

• If a member of staff works 60% of a full-time working week, their FTE is 0.6.

If a staff member works for part of the year, e.g., they are on a fixed term contract, or their permanent contract ends midway through the year, you should input their weekly FTE for their period of employment.

Reason Required

To enable robust analysis of FE workforce, pay and working pattern data.

Schema Definitions

XML Entity Name
FTE
Field Length
4
Data type
xs:decimal
Minimum occurrences
0
Maximum occurrences
1
Part of
StaffData

Collection Requirements

  • Collected for those staff members on permanent or fixed term contracts

Notes

Where a member of staff has more than one contract the FTE should be the combined percentage for all contracts.