Table WRISIZE5 - 2007/08
Estimated days (full-day equivalent) off work and associated average days lost per (full-time equivalent) worker due to a self-reported illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by workplace size
| Number of people in workplace + | Illness ascribed to the current or most recent job | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample cases $ | Days lost (thousands) | Average days lost per worker | |||||
| central | 95% C.I. | central | 95% C.I. | ||||
| lower | upper | lower | upper | ||||
| Illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job | |||||||
| Self employed on own or with partners but no employees | 86 | 1739 | 1047 | 2432 | 0.67 | 0.40 | 0.94 |
| 1-24 employees | 276 | 5284 | 4163 | 6406 | 0.73 | 0.58 | 0.89 |
| 25+ employees | 717 | 16028 | 14037 | 18020 | 1.14 | 1.00 | 1.28 |
| Missing | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 1-49 employees | 425 | 9236 | 7708 | 10765 | 0.92 | 0.77 | 1.07 |
| 50+ employees | 568 | 12077 | 10375 | 13778 | 1.07 | 0.92 | 1.23 |
| Missing | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job) | 1082 | 23146 | 20752 | 25541 | 0.96 | 0.86 | 1.06 |
| Other job caused or made illness worse, workplace size unknown# | 207 | 4503 | 3403 | 5602 | .. | .. | .. |
| Total (illness ascribed to any job) | 1289 | 27649 | 25011 | 30287 | 1.15 | 1.04 | 1.26 |
Notes:
.. Not applicable
+ Relates to the number of people at their workplace, which is not necessarily the same as the number of people working for the company.
$ For people taking time off work.
# Includes those who did not answer the question identifying the job to which their illness was ascribed and those who said their illness was ascribed to a job other than their current or most recent in the last 12 months.

