HOUSEHOLD DATA

ANNUAL AVERAGES

46. Absences from work of employed full-time wage and salary workers by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or

Latino ethnicity

[Numbers in thousands]

Characteristic

2021

Full-time

wage

and salary

workers1

Absence rate1Lost worktime rate2

Total Illness or

injury

Other

reasons

Total Illness or

injury

Other

reasons

AGE AND SEX

Total, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114,125 3.2 2.3 0.9 1.9 1.3 0.5

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,581 4.1 3.4 0.7 1.8 1.6 0.2

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,786 3.3 2.5 0.8 1.9 1.4 0.5

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,758 3.2 2.2 0.9 1.9 1.3 0.5

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,292 3.1 2.1 1.0 1.8 1.2 0.6

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,467 3.3 2.7 0.7 2.0 1.7 0.3

Men, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,848 2.6 2.0 0.6 1.5 1.2 0.3

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 932 3.4 2.8 0.6 1.5 1.3 0.2

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,794 2.5 2.0 0.5 1.5 1.3 0.2

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,122 2.6 2.0 0.6 1.5 1.2 0.3

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,721 2.4 1.8 0.6 1.4 1.1 0.3

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,400 3.0 2.5 0.5 1.9 1.7 0.2

Women, 16 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51,277 4.0 2.6 1.3 2.3 1.5 0.8

16 to 19 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648 5.2 4.1 1.0 2.2 1.9 0.4

20 to 24 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,992 4.3 3.1 1.2 2.3 1.6 0.8

25 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46,637 3.9 2.6 1.3 2.3 1.4 0.9

25 to 54 years. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,570 4.0 2.5 1.5 2.4 1.4 1.0

55 years and over. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,066 3.7 2.9 0.8 2.0 1.6 0.4

RACE AND HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY

White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,521 3.2 2.3 0.9 1.9 1.3 0.5

Black or African American. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,702 3.7 2.6 1.1 2.2 1.6 0.6

Asian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,805 2.2 1.5 0.8 1.3 0.8 0.5

Hispanic or Latino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,802 3.2 2.3 0.9 1.9 1.3 0.5

1 Absences are defined as instances when persons who usually work 35 or more hours per week (full time) 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, 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.

2 Hours absent as a percent of hours usually worked.

NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons

whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. All self-employed workers are excluded, both those with incorporated businesses and those with

unincorporated businesses. The estimates of full-time wage and salary employment shown in this table do not match those in other tables 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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with

the release of January data.

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