Summary

Estimates of sickness absence rates in the UK, with a focus on sickness inequalities between different types of workers.

Publications

• Sickness absence falls to the lowest rate on record

  The latest figures for 2017 show that the average number of sickness absence days that UK workers take has almost halved since 1993.

Data

• Sickness absence in the UK labour market

  Annual sickness absence rates of workers in the UK labour market, including number of work days lost, by country and region, sex and age group, and employment type.

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