The bar graph illustrates the outcomes of the reasearch conducted on five different reasons why the employees were absent in certain European countries in 2000, 2005 and 2010.
Overall, the workers main reasoning of absence in all three years was illness, while the least popular reason was stress. Compared to this two figures, the probability of the occurence of remaining 3 reasons is quite close to each other.
In 2000, the major portion of individuals did not go to workplace because of the illness (45%), whereas the percentage of the given reason as family responsibilities reached just below of 30%. Personal needs and unexpected problems leveled at 15% and 10% respectively, while the stress figure ended up with approximately 5%.
In 2005 and 2010, all the figures did not have a huge difference and even some reasons were at the same levels: for instance, family responsibilites and unexpected problems finished at 23% and 16% each. The ilness remained the most common reason for not entering workforces, with a variaton of 5% between the years: 40% and 35%.