Full-time equivalent employment

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-000782",
  "term": "Full-time equivalent employment",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "Full-time equivalent is a computed statistic representing the number of full-time employees that could have been employed if the reported number of hours worked by part-time employees had been worked by full-time employees. This statistic is calculated separately for each function of a government by dividing the \"part- time hours paid\" by the standard number of hours for full-time employees in the particular government and then adding the resulting quotient to the number of full-time employees.",
  "subject": "Governments",
  "see_also": [
    "Statistics about Governments"
  ],
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/full-time-equivalent-employment/"
}