The provided bar chart makes a comparison on the number of European respondents to the reasons for absening from work in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010.
Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the illness purpose hosted the highest proportion in three years, compared to the least contribution of stress as a reason for not going to work. Additionally, apart from the illness and family responsibilties reasons, other components experienced a downward trend throughout the period shown.
Delving into specifics, the percentage of respondents cited illness as a reason for absening from their work started at nearly 45%, followed by a steady decrease to exactly 35% in 2010. In 2000, about 25% of respondents didn’t go to work because of their family responsibilities. After experiencing a slight drop by around 2% in 2005, it remained unchanged in the next five years.
The personal needs reason accounted for about 15% of the total figure in 2000, and significantly increased by approximately 10%, reaching at about 25% in 2010. Stress and unexpected problems (transport, weather,etc) occupied for higher than 5% in 2000. While the former reached the lowest record of nearly 4% in 2005, the latter witnessed a sharp clmb to under 15%. However, the two figure in 2010 exhibited a similar percentage ( more than 10%).