Teachers by measure (headcount, full-person equivalent (FPE) and hours) and subjects taught
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Teachers by measure (headcount, full-person equivalent (FPE) and hours) and subjects taughtLast update
August 2024Next update
July 2025 (provisional)Publishing organisation
Welsh GovernmentSource 1
School Workforce Annual CensusContact email
EducationWorkforceData@gov.walesDesignation
Experimental statisticsGeographical coverage
Local authoritiesLanguages covered
English and WelshData licensing
You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licenceStatistical quality
The information collected from 2019to 2023 have not undergone a formal final validation period. However, various stages of automated validation and sense-checking are built into the process to ensure a high quality of data to inform policy making. A final validation period is being considered to be introduced for future collections for schools and LAs to review the information they return, and re-submit their data where errors are identified prior to publication.Keywords
SWAC; Teachers; Workforce; Subjects; Subject; FPE; HoursGeneral description
The data covers different aspects of the school workforce in Wales, using the data collected from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC).Data collection and calculation
School's data are derived from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC) returns in November each year.Frequency of publication
AnnualData reference periods
From 2019/20 onwardsUsers, uses and context
Information on subjects taught relates to a typical two-week timetable. The figures include teachers teaching delivered to pupils in years 7 and above only.For the headcount in the subject breakdown, teachers are counted once for each subject they teach. In the total, teachers are counted once, regardless of how many subjects they teach. This means the sum of the subject breakdown will not equal the total.
For the FPE teachers are split according to the proportion of teaching time they spend teaching a particular subject. If a teacher spent half of their teaching time teaching English and half of their time teaching Drama, in the FPE, they would be counted as 0.5 against each subject and as 1 in the total. In the headcount, this teacher would be counted as 1 against each subject and 1 in the total. In the subject breakdown, the greater the similarity between the headcount and FPE, the higher the proportion of teachers exclusively teaching that subject and greater the likelihood of subject specialism.
Hours reflects the total hours taught in the two-week timetable. All three measures are directly comparable.
