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Teachers by measure (Full-Person Equivalent (FPE) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)) and staff categoryLast update
July 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 2019 to 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; FTE; FPEGeneral 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
For the 2020 data, the Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) and the Full-Person Equivalent (FPE) were introduced to help communicate the distribution of the school workforce. Both the FTE and the FPE take into account that an individual may work in more than role. These measures differ to the Headcount (first published for the 2019 dataset) which counts individuals in their highest (most senior) role only.The full-time equivalent (FTE) is an employee's scheduled hours divided by the employer's hours for a full-time workweek e.g. a part-time worker employed for 20 hours a week where full-time work is 40 hours is counted as 0.5 FTE.
The FPE is the proportion of a person's total working time that is spent in a particular role. As the FPE is concerned with the individual, a person's FPE will always sum to 1, even if their FTE is not equal to 1.