The sick days are calculated on a Full Time Equivalent basis.
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Four current members of staff are currently working their notice before leaving the civil service this summer which will cut the "full time equivalent" number of staff to 56.8 - still more than in March 2011.
There are now 70, 000 fewer people going to college than two years ago, although the government has insisted that it has "maintained college numbers at the full time equivalent of 116, 000" through focusing on full-time students and cutting thousands of part-time places.
Part-time or part-time seasonal workers can be lumped together to count as full-time equivalent.
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But remember, if there are two part-time -- two half-time jobs, they're not reported as two jobs, they're reported as one full-time equivalent job.
There were 17, 436 full-time equivalent officers on 31 December 2012, down by 18 compared with 30 September.
The figures, which the Home Office describes as provisional and unverified, are compiled on a full-time equivalent basis.
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There were 17, 436 full-time equivalent police officers in Scotland on 31 December 2012.
Total FTE (full-time equivalent) undergraduate students divided by total FTE instructional staff not teaching in graduate or professional programs.
The latest figures showed there were 54, 600 full-time equivalent teachers between April and June last year in Scotland - an eight-year low.
The number of full-time equivalent TAs has increased threefold from 79, 000 in spring 2000 to 232, 300 in November 2012, the government figures show.
The statistics show there were 899, 000 full-time equivalent staff in England's schools - teachers, teaching assistants and other school staff - up 23, 200 on the previous year.
In the ten years to 2008, the total payroll in England expanded by almost 300, 000 to nearly 1.4m, a rise of 28% (32% on a full-time equivalent basis).
During the above mentioned period, full-time equivalent weighted average tuition increased by an annual real rate of 3.3 percent, outpacing the growth in student aid over the period.
It currently employs 1, 280 full-time equivalent members of nursing staff.
Paul Sherrington, principal of Banff and Buchan College, said the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff at the institution had dropped from 237 to 220 over the past two years.
The latest public sector employment figures showed 54, 600 full-time equivalent teachers between April and June this year - down 2, 200 on the same period last year, when the figures stood at 56, 800.
A. Once your firm reaches 50 full-time equivalent employees, a penalty will kick in if you fail to provide coverage for employees who average 30 or more hours a week in a given month.
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Some businesses may be hesitant to hire because a provision of the health-care law scheduled to kick in next year requires employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to offer health insurance or pay a penalty.
Earlier on, in response to a question by Labour's Graeme Morrice, the minister pointed out the NHS budget would increase in real terms during the lifetime of the Parliament, adding that the number of full-time equivalent clinical staff working in the NHS was higher today than in May 2010 and September 2009.
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The job cuts, affecting both full-time and part-time staff, are equivalent to 900 full-time posts.
It's an insurance marketplace, or "exchange, " for businesses with 100 or fewer full-time-equivalent employees.
At our company, we have 250 full-time-equivalent contractors around the world who work remotely for us, compared to 120 employees based in our headquarters.
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Total enrollment in institutions of higher education has also continued to grow steadily, from 10.1 million full-time-equivalent students in 1990 to 10.4 million in 1996.
It has shed 14, 000 full-time-equivalent jobs (5% of headcount) over the past 12 months and has disposed or closed 11 separate businesses since the start of the year.
Under the law, firms with 50 or more full-time-equivalent employees will have to provide "minimum essential" and "affordable" coverage, or pay a penalty for each employee in excess of 30 full-time employees.
At this pace, more than 44, 000 full-time-equivalent physicians could be lost over the next four years just as they are needed to treat the influx of millions of patients who will be newly insured under the Affordable Care Act signed into law two years ago by President Obama.
The actual number of staff affected could be higher than 200, according to the council, because part-time jobs have been added up to make the equivalent of full-time posts.
Large employers (more than 50 full-time workers or the equivalent) must pay an assessment if they don't offer employees certain minimum coverage at an affordable rate.
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