HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
 
45. Absences from work of employed full-time wage and salary workers by occupation and industry
 
(Numbers in thousands)
 
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               Occupation and industry                |         |       Absence rate 1/       |    Lost worktime rate 2/
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                                                      |         |  Total  | Illness |  Other  |  Total  | Illness |  Other
                                                      |         |         |or injury| reasons |         |or injury| reasons
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                      OCCUPATION
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Managerial and professional specialty.................|  27,255 |    3.2  |    2.2  |    1.0  |    1.6  |    1.0  |    0.6
  Executive, administrative, and managerial...........|  13,332 |    3.0  |    2.0  |    1.0  |    1.6  |    1.0  |     .6
  Professional specialty..............................|  13,923 |    3.4  |    2.3  |    1.0  |    1.7  |    1.1  |     .6
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Technical, sales, and administrative support..........|  26,032 |    4.3  |    3.1  |    1.3  |    2.2  |    1.5  |     .7
  Technicians and related support.....................|   3,205 |    4.2  |    3.1  |    1.0  |    2.2  |    1.6  |     .6
  Sales occupations...................................|   8,980 |    3.1  |    2.1  |    1.0  |    1.6  |    1.1  |     .5
  Administrative support, including clerical..........|  13,848 |    5.2  |    3.7  |    1.5  |    2.6  |    1.7  |     .8
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Service occupations...................................|   9,892 |    4.8  |    3.7  |    1.1  |    2.7  |    2.0  |     .6
Precision production, craft, and repair...............|  11,086 |    3.5  |    2.7  |     .7  |    1.9  |    1.6  |     .3
Operators, fabricators, and laborers..................|  15,095 |    4.6  |    3.5  |    1.1  |    2.6  |    2.1  |     .5
Farming, forestry, and fishing........................|   1,527 |    2.7  |    2.1  |     .6  |    1.6  |    1.3  |     .3
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                       INDUSTRY
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Agricultural wage and salary workers..................|   1,341 |    2.4  |    1.9  |     .5  |    1.5  |    1.3  |     .3
Private nonagricultural wage and salary workers.......|  74,133 |    3.8  |    2.8  |    1.1  |    2.0  |    1.5  |     .6
  Mining..............................................|     526 |    3.0  |    2.5  |     .5  |    2.1  |    1.8  |     .3
  Construction........................................|   4,950 |    3.3  |    2.5  |     .8  |    1.7  |    1.4  |     .3
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  Manufacturing.......................................|  18,720 |    3.9  |    2.9  |    1.0  |    2.2  |    1.6  |     .5
    Durable goods.....................................|  11,286 |    3.8  |    2.9  |    1.0  |    2.1  |    1.6  |     .5
    Nondurable goods..................................|   7,433 |    4.0  |    2.9  |    1.1  |    2.2  |    1.7  |     .6
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  Transportation and public utilities.................|   5,925 |    3.6  |    2.8  |     .9  |    2.2  |    1.7  |     .5
    Transportation....................................|   3,450 |    3.5  |    2.7  |     .8  |    2.2  |    1.8  |     .5
    Communications and other public utilities.........|   2,475 |    3.8  |    2.9  |     .9  |    2.2  |    1.6  |     .6
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  Wholesale and retail trade..........................|  15,971 |    3.6  |    2.6  |    1.0  |    1.9  |    1.4  |     .5
    Wholesale trade...................................|   3,917 |    3.0  |    2.2  |     .8  |    1.6  |    1.2  |     .4
    Retail trade......................................|  12,054 |    3.8  |    2.8  |    1.1  |    2.0  |    1.4  |     .5
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  Finance, insurance, and real estate.................|   5,936 |    3.8  |    2.6  |    1.2  |    1.9  |    1.2  |     .7
  Services............................................|  22,105 |    4.1  |    2.9  |    1.2  |    2.1  |    1.4  |     .7
Government workers....................................|  15,413 |    4.7  |    3.5  |    1.2  |    2.4  |    1.7  |     .6
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   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.