Calderdale Council Workforce Absence Quarterly and Annual Summary

Quarterly and annual summaries of Calderdale Council workforce absence from the 2013-14 period onward, excluding school staff. The data tracks average full-time equivalents (FTE) employed, FTE days lost to absence, and days lost per FTE. It is provided by the Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in FTE days lost to absence across quarters to identify seasonal patterns in staff health or leave.
• Calculate the days lost to absence per FTE metric to benchmark departmental or annual workforce productivity.
• Correlate average full-time equivalents (FTE) employed with absence rates to assess staffing impacts on operational capacity.
• Model absence rates using the quarterly time-series data to forecast future workforce availability for council planning.

Strengths

• Provides a multi-year time series from the 2013-14 period, enabling longitudinal analysis of absence trends.
• Includes three key calculated metrics: average FTE, FTE days lost, and days lost per FTE for direct analytical use.
• Data is sourced directly from the authoritative Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, ensuring official provenance.

Limitations

• The dataset excludes school staff, limiting its comprehensiveness for analyzing the entire local government workforce.
• Sample data and specific row/column counts are unavailable, making it difficult to assess the dataset's granularity and scale prior to download.
• The raw description does not specify the exact temporal endpoint, only the start year of 2013-14.

Provenance

Source

Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Collection Method

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Time Range

From 2013-14 onward

Freshness

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Geography

Calderdale, UK