More than half of all faculty members worked part time in 2005-6, and while men outnumbered women in the faculty ranks by 55 percent to 45 percent, among new hires the proportions were somewhat closer, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the National Center for Education Statistics, the Education Department’s statistical arm.

The report, “Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2005, and Salaries of Full-Time Instructional Faculty, 2005-06,” contains tables listing, among other things, the numbers, gender, race, and rank of faculty and other staff members at the more than 6,000 colleges, universities, and other institutions that are eligible for Title IV student-aid programs. The responses, the most recent released by the department, were collected through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from all of those institutions but the ones shut down in 2005-6 by the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The report also lists salary data for those faculty and staff members. But the American Association of University Professors reported its faculty-salary data for 2005-6 nearly a year ago, with a breakdown by institution. And the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources has already published its salary data for 2006-7, including reports on administrators, faculty members, and midlevel administrators. —Andrew Mytelka