• 2006/07
• 2005/06

Occupation description +	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	34	427	105	750	0.11	0.026	0.18
Professional occupations	2	36	546	102	989	0.17	0.032	0.31
Associate professional and technical occupations	3	73	950	615	1286	0.28	0.18	0.38
Administrative and secretarial occupations	4	44	729	314	1144	0.29	0.13	0.46
Skilled trades occupations	5	93	1239	723	1755	0.42	0.25	0.60
Personal service occupations	6	54	1277	657	1898	0.82	0.42	1.22
Sales and customer service occupations	7	27	396	50	741	0.30	0.038	0.56
Process, plant and machine operatives	8	57	1382	648	2115	0.72	0.34	1.10
Elementary occupations	9	66	1446	860	2032	0.66	0.39	0.93
All occupations (illness ascribed to the current or most recent job)		484	8392	6895	9889	0.36	0.30	0.43
Other job caused or made illness worse#		120	2322	1441	3204	..	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)		604	10715	8973	12457	0.46	0.39	0.54

Notes:

.. Not applicable.

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

$ 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 Industrial Classification (1992)

• Definitions and data reliability
• See Table MSDOCC6SIG for tests of statistical significance