Table WRIOCC6 - 2003/04

• 2007/08
• 2006/07
• 2005/06
• 2004/05
• 2003/04
• 2001/02

Occupation description +	Major or sub-major group	Illness ascribed to the current or most recent job
		Sample cases $	Days lost (thousands)			Average days lost per worker
			central	95% C.I.		central	95% C.I.
				lower	upper		lower	upper
Managers and senior officials	1	181	3241	2447	4036	0.82	0.62	1.02
Corporate managers	11	138	2375	1761	2988	0.77	0.57	0.96
Managers and proprietors in agriculture and services	12	43	867	364	1369	1.00	0.42	1.59
Professional occupations	2	180	2415	1769	3061	0.81	0.59	1.02
Science and technology professionals	21	38	264	137	390	0.30	0.16	0.44
Health professionals	22	9	*	*	*	*	*	*
Teaching and research professionals	23	88	1230	789	1672	1.12	0.72	1.52
Business and public service professionals	24	45	709	327	1090	0.89	0.41	1.37
Associate professional and technical occupations	3	214	3733	2718	4749	1.13	0.83	1.44
Science and technology associate professionals	31	16	*	*	*	*	*	*
Health and social welfare associate professionals	32	89	1150	769	1531	1.49	1.00	1.98
Protective service occupations	33	28	1152	403	1902	3.51	1.25	5.76
Culture, media and sports occupations	34	14	*	*	*	*	*	*
Business and public service associate professionals	35	67	977	547	1407	0.75	0.42	1.08
Administrative and secretarial occupations	4	128	2507	1778	3237	0.97	0.69	1.25
Administrative occupations	41	102	1934	1304	2563	0.98	0.66	1.30
Secretarial and related occupations	42	26	573	207	940	0.92	0.33	1.51
Skilled trades occupations	5	175	3853	2831	4875	1.25	0.92	1.59
Skilled agricultural trades	51	15	*	*	*	*	*	*
Skilled metal and electrical trades	52	65	1102	575	1629	0.93	0.48	1.37
Skilled construction and building trades	53	76	1866	1150	2583	1.71	1.05	2.36
Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	54	19	*	*	*	*	*	*
Personal service occupations	6	115	1853	1233	2473	1.26	0.84	1.68
Caring personal service occupations	61	89	1231	763	1698	1.14	0.71	1.57
Leisure and other personal service occupations	62	26	622	214	1030	1.61	0.56	2.66
Sales and customer service occupations	7	61	984	589	1378	0.71	0.43	1.0
Sales occupations	71	39	558	293	822	0.50	0.26	0.74
Customer service occupations	72	22	426	133	719	1.56	0.49	2.63
Process, plant and machine operatives	8	110	3113	2199	4027	1.58	1.12	2.04
Process, plant and machine operatives	81	62	1839	1104	2575	1.88	1.13	2.63
Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	82	48	1274	731	1816	1.28	0.74	1.83
Elementary occupations	9	131	2921	2018	3823	1.33	0.92	1.74
Elementary trades, plant and storage related occupations	91	51	1362	732	1993	1.63	0.87	2.38
Elementary administration and service occupations	92	80	1558	913	2204	1.15	0.67	1.63
Missing		1	..	..	..	..	..	..
All occupations (illness ascribed to the current or most recent job)		1296	24648	22212	27084	1.07	0.97	1.18
Other job caused or made illness worse#		267	5118	3990	6246	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)		1563	29766	27079	32452	1.30	1.18	1.41

Notes:

.. Not applicable.

* Sample numbers too small to provide reliable estimates.

$ For people taking time off work.

# Includes those who did not answer the question identifying the job to which their illness was ascribed and those who said their illness was ascribed to a job other than their current or most recent in the last 12 months.

+ Details of Standard Occupational Classification (2000)

• Definitions, data reliability and tests of statistical significance

Figures in italics are estimates based on fewer than 40 sample cases.