HOUSEHOLD DATA                                                                                                        HOUSEHOLD DATA
     ANNUAL AVERAGES                                                                                                      ANNUAL AVERAGES
     
     46.  Absences from work of employed full-time wage and salary workers by age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                    2008                                 
                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                         
                                                                   Workers in        Absence rate (1)           Lost worktime rate (2)   
           Age, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity         absence                                                              
                                                                    universe                                                             
                                                                      (in                Illness    Other              Illness    Other  
                                                                   thousands)   Total   or injury  reasons    Total   or injury  reasons 
                                                                      (1)                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
       Total, 16 years and over..................................   102,307       3.1       2.2       0.9       1.7       1.2       0.5  
     16 to 19 years..............................................     1,345       2.4       1.5        .9       1.3        .7        .5  
     20 to 24 years..............................................     8,528       2.9       2.0        .9       1.4        .9        .6  
     25 years and over...........................................    92,433       3.2       2.2        .9       1.7       1.2        .5  
       25 to 54 years............................................    75,837       3.1       2.1       1.0       1.7       1.1        .6  
       55 years and over.........................................    16,597       3.6       2.9        .7       2.0       1.7        .3  
                                                                                                                                         
       Men, 16 years and over....................................    57,019       2.3       1.8        .5       1.2       1.0        .3  
     16 to 19 years..............................................       799       1.5       1.0        .5        .6        .5        .2  
     20 to 24 years..............................................     4,797       2.0       1.5        .4        .9        .7        .2  
     25 years and over...........................................    51,424       2.3       1.8        .5       1.3       1.0        .3  
       25 to 54 years............................................    42,477       2.2       1.7        .5       1.2        .9        .3  
       55 years and over.........................................     8,946       3.0       2.5        .5       1.8       1.5        .3  
                                                                                                                                         
       Women, 16 years and over..................................    45,288       4.1       2.7       1.4       2.3       1.4        .9  
     16 to 19 years..............................................       546       3.6       2.2       1.4       2.2       1.1       1.1  
     20 to 24 years..............................................     3,732       4.0       2.5       1.5       2.2       1.1       1.0  
     25 years and over...........................................    41,010       4.2       2.8       1.4       2.3       1.4        .8  
       25 to 54 years............................................    33,359       4.2       2.6       1.5       2.3       1.3        .9  
       55 years and over.........................................     7,650       4.2       3.4        .8       2.3       1.9        .4  
                                                                                                                                         
     White.......................................................    82,806       3.1       2.2        .9       1.6       1.1        .5  
     Black or African American...................................    12,081       3.6       2.4       1.1       2.1       1.5        .6  
     Asian.......................................................     5,015       2.2       1.4        .8       1.3        .7        .6  
     Hispanic or Latino..........................................    15,133       2.7       1.8        .9       1.4        .9        .5  

       1 The absence universe includes most wage and salary workers who usually work full-time at their primary or sole job.  Absences
     are defined as instances when persons who usually work 35 or more hours a week at their main job worked less than 35 hours during
     the reference week for one of the following reasons:  Own illness, injury, or medical problems; child-care problems; other family or
     personal obligations; civic or military duty; and maternity or paternity leave.  Excluded are situations in which work was missed
     due to vacation or personal days, holiday, labor dispute, slack work or business conditions, and the wait for a new job to begin.
     For multiple jobholders, absence data refer only to work missed at their main jobs. All self-employed persons are excluded,
     regardless of whether or not their jobs are incorporated.  Conceptually, the absence rate is the ratio of workers with absences to
     total full-time wage and salary workers who usually work 35 hours or more on their main job. 
       2 Hours absent as a percent of hours usually worked, which is derived using the number of workers in absence universe as defined
     in footnote 1 above, minus those who reported that their hours varied.  
       NOTE:  Estimates for the above race groups (white, black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are
     not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population
     controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.