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Number of persons employed by the Entity

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Entity Number of Employees, Field Personnel

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The percentage of the number of employees.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of discretionary contributions made by an employer to a defined contribution plan.

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Percentage of contributions required of employer under collective bargaining arrangement to total contributions required under all collective bargaining arrangements for pension and other postretirement plan to which two or more unrelated employers contribute where assets contributed by one participating employer may be used to provide benefits to employees of other participating employers.

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Amount of contributions made to multiemployer plan by employer.

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