French household sole proprietorship paid employment: FTE
French household sole proprietorship paid employment: FTE stood at 253.9 in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Household and corporate accounts table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q1 1978 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Household and corporate accounts table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
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| Households | |||||||||||
| Paid employment of sole proprietorships (full-time equivalent) - Employees in thousands - SA series | 253.9 | 259.3 | 265 | 269.8 | 273.2 | 275.5 | 277.2 | 280.2 | 284.7 | 290.5 | |
| Paid employment of households excluding sole proprietorships (individuals) - Employees in thousands - SA series | 664.3 | 666.1 | 667.3 | 669.2 | 672 | 675.7 | 680.2 | 683.1 | 683.8 | 684.3 |
Understanding french household sole proprietorship paid employment: FTE
Salaried personnel working for unincorporated sole proprietorships are evaluated in standardized units that adjust for part-time schedules, measuring the aggregate volume of hired labor in this sector. The metric leaves out the business proprietors and employees of incorporated companies, focusing strictly on wage earners in unincorporated firms. Part-time and seasonal staff are scaled downward to reflect standard full-time working hours.
Reading this labor volume series allows analysts to track actual staffing commitments without distortions from fluctuating part-time job shares. Revisions often appear when administrative social security databases reconcile employer declarations with actual hours paid. Comparing this metric with output series for sole proprietorships helps researchers evaluate labor productivity trends specifically within the unincorporated business tier.
Frequently asked questions
- Why convert employee counts into full-time equivalents?
- It ensures that a mix of part-time and full-time workers is measured as a uniform volume of labor input.
- Are the business owners included in this full-time equivalent measure?
- No, working owners are captured in a separate self-employment series.
- How should quarterly changes in this series be interpreted?
- Quarter-on-quarter shifts reflect underlying labor demand adjustments by small unincorporated employers after seasonal smoothing.