HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
 
44. Absences from work of employed full-time wage and salary workers by age and sex
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |
                                                      |                                1996
                                                      |
                                                       _____________________________________________________________________
                                                      |         |                             |
                     Age and sex                      |         |       Absence rate 1/       |    Lost worktime rate 2/
                                                      |  Total  |                             |
                                                                 _____________________________ _____________________________
                                                      |employed |         |         |         |         |         |
                                                      |         |  Total  | Illness |  Other  |  Total  | Illness |  Other
                                                      |         |         |or injury| reasons |         |or injury| reasons
                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |
  Total, 16 years and over............................|  90,887 |    4.0  |    2.9  |    1.1  |    2.1  |    1.5  |    0.6
16 to 19 years........................................|   1,923 |    4.5  |    3.2  |    1.2  |    2.1  |    1.4  |     .7
20 to 24 years........................................|   8,376 |    4.2  |    2.9  |    1.3  |    2.1  |    1.3  |     .8
25 years and over.....................................|  80,588 |    3.9  |    2.9  |    1.0  |    2.1  |    1.5  |     .5
  25 to 54 years......................................|  71,667 |    3.9  |    2.8  |    1.1  |    2.0  |    1.5  |     .6
  55 years and over...................................|   8,921 |    4.2  |    3.5  |     .7  |    2.4  |    2.2  |     .3
                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |
  Men, 16 years and over..............................|  51,859 |    2.9  |    2.3  |     .6  |    1.5  |    1.3  |     .3
16 to 19 years........................................|   1,155 |    3.5  |    2.7  |     .8  |    1.5  |    1.2  |     .3
20 to 24 years........................................|   4,800 |    3.1  |    2.4  |     .7  |    1.5  |    1.2  |     .3
25 years and over.....................................|  45,903 |    2.9  |    2.3  |     .6  |    1.5  |    1.3  |     .3
  25 to 54 years......................................|  40,761 |    2.8  |    2.2  |     .6  |    1.5  |    1.2  |     .3
  55 years and over...................................|   5,142 |    3.6  |    3.1  |     .5  |    2.2  |    1.9  |     .2
                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |
  Women, 16 years and over............................|  39,028 |    5.4  |    3.7  |    1.7  |    2.9  |    1.9  |    1.0
16 to 19 years........................................|     767 |    5.9  |    4.1  |    1.9  |    3.0  |    1.8  |    1.2
20 to 24 years........................................|   3,576 |    5.6  |    3.5  |    2.1  |    2.9  |    1.4  |    1.5
25 years and over.....................................|  34,685 |    5.3  |    3.7  |    1.6  |    2.8  |    1.9  |     .9
  25 to 54 years......................................|  30,906 |    5.4  |    3.6  |    1.7  |    2.8  |    1.8  |    1.0
  55 years and over...................................|   3,779 |    5.1  |    4.2  |     .9  |    2.8  |    2.4  |     .4
                                                      |         |         |         |         |         |         |
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 
   1/  Absences are defined as instances when persons who usually work 35 or more hours a week worked less than 35 hours
during the reference week for one of the following reasons: Own illness, injury, or medical problems; child-care problems;
other family personal obligations; civic or military duty; and maternity or paternity leave.  Excluded are situations in
which work was missed due to vacation or personal days, holiday, labor dispute, and other reasons.  For multiple jobholders,
absence data refer only to work missed at their main jobs.  The absence rate is the ratio of workers with absences to total
full-time wage and salary employment.  The estimates of full-time wage and salary employment shown in this table do not
match those in other tables because they exclude the incorporated self-employed and were not subject to the monthly
compositing process that affects most annual averages produced from CPS data collected monthly from the full sample.
   2/  Hours absent as a percent of hours usually worked.