Table WRIOCC6 - 2006/07

Estimated days (full-day equivalent) off work and associated average days lost per (full-time equivalent) worker due to a self-reported illness caused or made worse by current or most recent job, by occupational major and sub-major group.

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.
			central	lower	upper	central	lower	upper
Managers and senior officials	1	167	3000	2170	3831	0.74	0.53	0.94
Corporate managers	11	132	2382	1661	3104	0.74	0.51	0.96
Managers and proprietors in agriculture and services	12	35	618	206	1029	0.74	0.25	1.23
Professional occupations	2	156	2877	2006	3747	0.89	0.62	1.16
Science and technology professionals	21	27	684	284	1084	0.69	0.29	1.10
Health professionals	22	12	*	*	*	*	*	*
Teaching and research professionals	23	88	1563	932	2194	1.45	0.87	2.04
Business and public service professionals	24	29	306	110	501	0.36	0.13	0.58
Associate professional and technical occupations	3	221	4088	3128	5049	1.21	0.93	1.50
Science and technology associate professionals	31	15	*	*	*	*	*	*
Health and social welfare associate professionals	32	90	1405	943	1867	1.79	1.21	2.38
Protective service occupations	33	16	*	*	*	*	*	*
Culture, media and sports occupations	34	30	235	98	371	0.46	0.19	0.73
Business and public service associate professionals	35	70	1731	982	2481	1.31	0.74	1.88
Administrative and secretarial occupations	4	124	2127	1498	2755	0.86	0.60	1.11
Administrative occupations	41	98	1628	1076	2181	0.85	0.56	1.14
Secretarial and related occupations	42	26	499	199	799	0.89	0.36	1.42
Skilled trades occupations	5	156	2509	1759	3259	0.86	0.60	1.11
Skilled agricultural trades	51	19	*	*	*	*	*	*
Skilled metal and electrical trades	52	65	1236	656	1816	1.10	0.59	1.62
Skilled construction and building trades	53	50	568	298	838	0.51	0.27	0.75
Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	54	22	445	119	772	1.02	0.27	1.78
Personal service occupations	6	133	2893	2039	3748	1.86	1.31	2.41
Caring personal service occupations	61	103	1906	1273	2540	1.60	1.07	2.13
Leisure and other personal service occupations	62	30	987	414	1560	2.76	1.16	4.36
Sales and customer service occupations	7	73	1203	711	1695	0.91	0.54	1.27
Sales occupations	71	51	855	404	1305	0.82	0.39	1.25
Customer service occupations	72	22	349	151	546	1.21	0.53	1.89
Process, plant and machine operatives	8	88	2439	1506	3372	1.27	0.78	1.75
Process, plant and machine operatives	81	46	1236	613	1859	1.38	0.68	2.07
Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	82	42	1203	508	1898	1.18	0.50	1.85
Elementary occupations	9	128	3446	2449	4444	1.57	1.12	2.03
Elementary trades, plant and storage related occupations	91	45	1338	752	1925	1.67	0.94	2.40
Elementary administration and service occupations	92	83	2108	1301	2915	1.52	0.94	2.10
All occupations (illness ascribed to the current or most recent job)		1246	24583	22106	27059	1.06	0.96	1.17
Other job caused or made illness worse#		229	5381	4066	6695	..	..	..
Total (illness ascribed to any job)		1475	29963	27155	32771	1.30	1.18	1.42

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 Industrial Classification (1992)

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