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Using the Labour Force Surveys to Construct and Absence Rate Series for Britain, 1984-1997

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Tim Barmby (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
Marco Ercolani () (Institute for Labour Research, University of Essex, UK)
John Treble () (University of Wales, Bangor, UK)

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The Labour Force Surveys are used to construct monthly, quarterly and annual absence rate series for British full-time employees in 1984-1997. The long term trend is for the absence rate to remain constant at around 3.2%. A seasonal pattern is also found, with the absence rate being highest in December and lowest in May. The same data is also decomposed respect to various socio-economic characteristic. These include, geographical area, gender, age, marital status, trade union membership, industry and occupation. Systematic patterns are evident in these decompositions.

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Paper provided by Institute for Labour Research in its series ILR working papers with number 027.

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Keywords: Absence from work; Absenteeism; Illness;

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