HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES                                                                                              ANNUAL AVERAGES

46.  Absences from work of employed full-time wage and salary workers by age and sex
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                        2006                                
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                     Age and sex                         Total          Absence rate (1)           Lost worktime rate (2)   
                                                        employed                                                            
                                                          (in                                                               
                                                         thou-     Total    Illness    Other     Total    Illness    Other  
                                                         sands)            or injury  reasons            or injury  reasons 
                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                            
  Total, 16 years and over............................  105,785      3.2       2.3       0.9       1.8       1.2       0.5  
16 to 19 years........................................    1,741      3.0       2.1        .9       1.4       1.1        .4  
20 to 24 years........................................    9,490      2.8       1.9        .9       1.4        .9        .5  
25 years and over.....................................   94,555      3.3       2.3        .9       1.8       1.3        .5  
  25 to 54 years......................................   78,821      3.2       2.2       1.0       1.7       1.2        .6  
  55 years and over...................................   15,733      3.6       3.0        .7       2.0       1.7        .3  
                                                                                                                            
  Men, 16 years and over..............................   59,633      2.4       1.8        .6       1.3       1.0        .3  
16 to 19 years........................................    1,059      2.1       1.7        .5       1.1       1.0        .2  
20 to 24 years........................................    5,462      2.2       1.6        .6       1.0        .8        .2  
25 years and over.....................................   53,111      2.4       1.9        .6       1.3       1.0        .3  
  25 to 54 years......................................   44,601      2.3       1.7        .6       1.2        .9        .3  
  55 years and over...................................    8,510      3.2       2.7        .5       1.9       1.7        .2  
                                                                                                                            
  Women, 16 years and over............................   46,152      4.3       2.8       1.4       2.4       1.5        .9  
16 to 19 years........................................      681      4.4       2.9       1.5       2.0       1.2        .8  
20 to 24 years........................................    4,027      3.8       2.3       1.4       2.0       1.0       1.0  
25 years and over.....................................   41,443      4.3       2.9       1.4       2.4       1.6        .9  
  25 to 54 years......................................   34,221      4.3       2.8       1.5       2.5       1.5       1.0  
  55 years and over...................................    7,223      4.2       3.3        .9       2.3       1.8        .4  

  1 Absences are defined as instances when persons who usually work 35 or more hours a week at their main job 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 or 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, slack work or
business conditions, and the wait for a new job to begin.  For multiple jobholders, absence data refer only to work missed
at their main jobs.  All self-employed persons are excluded, regardless of whether or not their jobs are incorporated.  The
absence rate is the ratio of workers with absences to total full-time wage and salary workers who usually work 35 hours or
more on their main job.  The estimates of full-time wage and salary employment shown in this table do not match those in
other tables in part because the estimates in this table are based on the full CPS sample and those in the other tables are
based on a quarter of the sample only. 
  2 Hours absent as a percent of hours usually worked. 
  NOTE:   Beginning in January 2006, data reflect revised population controls used in the household survey.