• 2006/07
• 2005/06

Workplace size +	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
Illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job
Small (less than 50 employees)~	207	3225	2347	4102	0.27	0.19	0.34
Medium (50-249 employees)	93	1395	850	1940	0.29	0.18	0.41
Large (250+ employees)	108	2576	1670	3481	0.47	0.31	0.64
Missing/unknown	10	..	..	..	..	..	..
All persons (illness ascribed to current or most recent job)	418	7590	6175	9005	0.33	0.27	0.39
Other job caused illness, workplace size unknown#	91	1860	1192	2528	..	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)	509	9450	7885	11015	0.41	0.34	0.48

Notes:

.. Not applicable

~ Includes those who are self employed on their own or with partners who have no employees.

+ Relates to the number of people at their workplace, which is not necessarily the same as the number of people working for the company.

$ 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.

Individuals who gave the response 'Don't know but between 50 and 499' have been coded as missing/unknown.

• Definitions and data reliability.
• Tables are available for earlier years, but rates are presented as 'rates per 100 workers'.