Employment type
full_time_employment_rateFull-time, year-round employment
Share of employed people who worked 50–52 weeks in the past 12 months and usually worked at least 35 hours per week.
What this measure means
The weighted percentage of employed civilian people age 16–64 who worked 50–52 weeks in the past 12 months and usually worked at least 35 hours per week, among those with valid WKWN and WKHP responses.
Who is included
- Population (universe)
- Employed civilian noninstitutionalized population age 16–64 with valid weeks and usual hours worked
- Age range
- 16–64
- Measure and unit
- Rate; Percent
- Denominator
- employed people in universe with valid WKWN and WKHP
Supported data sources and areas
These are the combinations this definition supports. Available estimates depend on the selected release, source coverage and reporting rules. National estimates can use annual or pooled ACS data; state estimates use pooled data. Eligible PUMA estimates use annual or pooled data with the selected release's native boundaries.
Products
- ACS 1-year
- ACS 5-year
Geographies
- United States
- Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), using the selected release’s documented native boundaries
- State and District of Columbia
Compatible ACS release years
ACS 1-year: 2015 onward, excluding 2020; ACS 5-year: periods ending in 2015 onward
Analysis options defined for this measure
The explorer shows the options available in the selected release. Calculated changes between periods are currently unavailable.
Filters and breakdowns
- Race and ethnicity
- Sex reported in the ACS
- Educational attainment
- Disability
- Age
- Additional disability
Calculations
- Difference
- Percentage point difference
- Ratio
- Percent change
Uncertainty and reliability
- When results are withheld
- Results are withheld when fewer than 351 survey records are included in the denominator.
- When to use caution
- Results are marked unstable when the standard error exceeds 30% of the estimate's absolute value. This is the relative standard error (RSE). Use these estimates with caution.
Survey weights used: PWGTP and PWGTP1–PWGTP80
Version and sources
- Definition version
- ndc-definitions-2026.12
- Methodology version
- ndc-observatory-2026.3
- Change note
- Corrects the NDC full-time, year-round classification to require both 50–52 weeks worked and at least 35 usual hours, limits availability to releases with WKWN, and removes the tautological employment-type breakdown and filter.