The full-time equivalent (FTE) employment rate measures the extent to which the population of working-age is fully occupied in work. People working full-time are counted as fully occupied (1 FTE) while people working part-time are counted in proportion to the number of hours worked compared to a full-time worker. For example, a person working an average of 20 hours per week would count as 0.5 FTE when full-time averages 40 hours per week.
The data shown are based on the following calculation for each combination of country, sex, and age: ( ( [No. employed PT]*[Av. hours PT]/[Av. hours FT] ) + [No. employed FT] ) / Population
Data are derived from three separate datasets published by Eurostat on the numbers of people working full/part-time (lfsa_eftpt), average hours worked by full/part-time status (lfsa_ewhun2), and population (lfsa_pgawns). Because of inconsistencies in the age-breakdowns available in these three datasets, the indicator is calculated only for age-groups 15-64, 20-64, 15-24, 55-64 and misses data for age-group 25-54 that was also specified in the original Council definition.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |