Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (occupational therapists), average N[NNN{.N}]
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Full-time equivalent staff—occupational therapists |
| METEOR identifier: | 287603 |
| Registration status: | Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 |
| Definition: | The average number of full-time equivalent staff units paid for all occupational therapists within an establishment. |
| Data Element Concept: | Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (occupational therapists) |
| Value Domain: | Average full-time equivalent staff N[NNN{.N}] |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
| Representation class: | Average | |
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| Data type: | Number | |
| Format: | N[NNN{.N}] | |
| Maximum character length: | 5 | |
| Unit of measure: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff | |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
| Guide for use: | Persons who have completed a course of recognised training and are eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Occupational Therapists. The average is to be calculated from pay period figures. The length of the pay period is assumed to be a fortnight. Data on full-time equivalent staffing numbers by category should be consistent with data on salaries and wages by staffing category. If the full-time equivalent for contract staff is not collected then salaries for those contract staff should be included in other recurrent expenditure data items. Where staff provide services to more than one establishment, full-time equivalent staff members should be apportioned between all establishments to which services are provided on the basis of hours paid for in each (salary costs should be apportioned on the same basis). |
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| Comments: | This metadata item was amended during 1996-97. Until then, both average and end of year counts of full-time equivalent staff were included, and the end of year counts used as surrogates for the average counts if the latter were unavailable. The average count is more useful for accurate analysis of staffing inputs for establishment outputs and for assessments and comparisons of labour costs. |
Source and reference attributes | |
| Origin: | National Health Data Committee |
Relational attributes | |
| Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (occupational therapists), average NNNN.NN Health, Standard 16/01/2020 |
| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | |