National absenteeism statistics, absenteeism, frequency, duration of absence
Description
1.ALGEMENE DATA
The table provides insight into three sickness absence rates, namely:
sick leave rate, sick reporting frequency and average duration
of terminated cases of illness, of employees in undertakings and
institutions. The sickness absence rate is shown for both the
first as a possible second year of illness. The sick leave rate
it is also broken down by duration class. The average duration of terminated
cases of illness are given both for cases that have ended in
the first year of illness and for the second year of illness.
In addition, sickness absence rates are broken down by
different personal characteristics and characteristics of the company where the
employee works and other characteristics:
— gender,
— age,
— marital status,
— origin grouping,
— wage class,
— part of the country,
— province,
— urbanity, and
— economic activity (SBI 1993) by business sectors, branches and
classes,
— size of the company or institution, and
— period.
Data available from: 2002.
Frequency: stopped on 13 February 2009.
Changes to the previous version
As of 13 February 2009, CBS discontinued the NVS because
statistical representativeness of sick leave data
it was not enough for a long time. There was also insufficient confidence that the
quality and representativeness of NVS data in the near future
would improve. Publication of national sickness absence rates will
from now on, on the basis of a quarterly absence of sick leave
companies.
The 2005 data were added on 12 December 2006 and the data
revised in 2004. Absenteeism figures for 2004 deviate from the previous
published numbers over the same period. By expanding the
control and correction method has become possible to overlap
to remove default periods. This adjustment ensures that it
previously published absence rate for 2004 with approximately one
0.5 percentage points have fallen. The absence figures for 2002 and 2003 will be
it will be revised later.
The following corrections have been made to the 2005 default figures:
— due to the reduced quality of UWV employee data,
have these data been corrected using employment
development as derived from the Labour Accounts of Statistics Netherlands;
— of the absenteeism of the UWV safety net cases over the second half
only limited information is available in 2005. For this is
corrected by the evolution from 2004 to 2005 of the safety net
cases from the first half of the year, to be applied to the second half
from 2005;
— the figures for absenteeism do not include agriculture and
fisheries, care, education and financial institutions. By the
liberalisation of occupational health and safety services as of 1 July 2005,
companies for the prevention and supervision of absenteeism no longer
required to hire an occupational safety service. This has been given to some
industries led to a non-representative response. It goes
for the sectors of education, health and welfare and
financial institutions.
Status of the figures:
For the time being, the figures are of a provisional nature.
The National Failure Statistics (NVS) replaces the
quarterly study “Sick absence of private companies” that the CBS on
held the years 1995 to the first quarter of 2004. This
investigation was based on a written survey of a sample
from companies. The NVS will also replace the quarterly survey in the long term.
‘Sickness absenteeism national government’ (examination period 1992 to 2004) and the
annual survey ‘State absence of illness’ (examination period 1992 to 2003).
The statistics mentioned remain available on StatLine.
When comparing the results of the NVS with the results of the
previous sick leave statistics should be taken into account
held:
— The NVS also includes absenteeism from the government. Therefore, it is
the NVS is not entirely comparable to the old quarterly statistics,
in which government and private companies become separate
reproduced;
— In the statistics on absenteeism national government was included in the absenteeism rate
default for more than a year (at the NVS this is also included from
2005);
— The NVS only issues the default registered by occupational health services and UWV
weather;
— The NVS does not yet have sufficient data on the
absenteeism in the agriculture and fisheries, healthcare, education and financial sectors
institutions;
— The NVS makes it possible for different background characteristics to be
absenteeism can be linked and that multiple default magnitudes
can be displayed;
— Further research is being carried out on the possibilities of publication
of default figures for the (Rijks) government separately.
Changes compared to the previous version: none.
When will there be new figures: 2009 (tbc).
Due to modifications to the NVS system, use of data from the
policy administration and regulatory changes
recording of data in the default records at
companies, occupational health and safety services and UWV, will not be the next update sooner than
April 2009 will be released.