Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (other personal care staff), average NNNN.NN
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Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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| Short name: | Full-time equivalent staff—other personal care staff |
| METEOR identifier: | 722521 |
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| Definition: | The average number of full-time equivalent staff units paid for all other personal care staff within an establishment. |
| Data Element Concept: | Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (other personal care staff) |
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| Representation class: | Average | |||||||||
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| Data type: | Number | |||||||||
| Format: | NNNN.NN | |||||||||
| Maximum character length: | 6 | |||||||||
| Unit of measure: | Full-time equivalent (FTE) staff | |||||||||
| Unit of measure precision: | 2 | |||||||||
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| Guide for use: | This metadata item includes attendants, assistants or home assistance, home companions, family aides, ward helpers, warders, orderlies, ward assistants and nursing assistants engaged primarily in the provision of personal care to patients or residents, who are not formally qualified or undergoing training in nursing or allied health professions The average is to be calculated from pay period figures. The length of the pay period is assumed to be a fortnight. If under the relevant award of agreement a full-time employee is paid for an 80 (ordinary time) hour fortnight, the full-time equivalent for a part-time employee who works 64 hours is 0.8. If a full-time employee under the same award is paid for 100 hours for that fortnight (20 hours overtime), then the full-time equivalent is 100 divided by 80 = 1.25. 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). 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). | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
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| Origin: | National Health Data Committee | |||||||||
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| Related metadata references: | Supersedes Establishment—full-time equivalent staff (paid) (other personal care staff), average N[NNN{.N}]
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| Implementation in Data Set Specifications: All attributes + |
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