Table 2.

Incidence rate and latency of recurrence of medically certified sick leaves.

	Men		Women
	Partial sick leave (n = 293)	Full sick leave (n = 13 082)	Partial sick leave (n = 754)	Full sick leave (n = 15 298)
Mean time (months) to the first recurrent sick leave (95% CI) (Kaplan - Meier analysis)	14.5 (13.3 - 15.7) (n of events = 154)	19.3 (19.1 - 19.5) (n of events = 3 890)	13.5 (12.8 - 14.2) (n of events = 457)	18.5 (18.3 - 18.6) (n of events = 5 218)
p Log Rank	0.000		0.000
Total no of sickness absence days	12 463	275 141	33 592	345 484
Person months	5 745	227 598	15 249	265 830
Incidence Rate (recurrent sick leaves/person month)	0.04	0.03	0.05	0.03