Band 6+: The chart below shows the results of three surveys on absenteeism in a particular European country in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010. The results show the reasons people gave for not going to work. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of five different reasons for people absenting at work in a European region from 2000 to 2010.

Looking an overall perspective, the percentage of residents were absent from work due to illness was the highest. However, the reason while people did not go to work in the case of stress and unexpected problems were chosen by the lowest figure. Moreover, there was an upward trend in the proportions of people not going to work due to person needs.

As can be seen, there were nearly 45% of people not going to work by illness, which was the highest percentage among the five main reasons, however declinding by around 10% after 10 years. In addition, the figure for individuals were absented from workplace for family responsibilities started over 25%, then slightly decreased to 25% in the year 2005 and 2010.

Regarding the remaining figure, over 10% of people reasons not at work because of personal needs, contributing under 15% in the first year of the period, then soaring by 10% in 2010. Meanwhile, the total of people felt stress at work experienced a low rise from roughly 5% to over 10% in 10 years. Finally, the figure for unexpected issues such as transport or weather witnessed a slow increase beginning at around 10%, before peaking at nearly 15% then falling down at the end of the period.