The bar chart elucidates 5 main reasons for absenteeism in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010.
Overall, illness accounted for the majority of absentees’ reason while stress made up of a much lower percentage. The other three remained fairly consistent throughout the period.
Considering illness and family responsibilities, both shared the downward trend. Starting of at 45%, illness’s proportion decreased sharply by 5% every 5 years, making it 35% at the end of the period. Still, illness maintained its position as the most common reason for absenteeism in all 3 recorded years. As for family responsibilities, in the first 5 years, its proportion went down from nearly 30% to less than 25%. However, such figure remained consistent until the ending period.
By contrast, the other three categories experienced the upward trend. Despite having a humble start at just over 5%, stress proportion soared to nearly 15% after experiencing a slight decrease in the year 2005. Starting at a much better level of 10%, unexpected problems percentage kept rising until it reached approximately 16%. The period of stagnation followed afterwards. Higher than the other two, the percentage of people putting their absenteeism down to personal needs increased by over one-third in the first 5 years of the period. Although a slight decrease was observed, its figure remained fairly high at roughly 20%.