Table 1.
Sickness absence characteristics of the study population
| Person-years | Absence percentage (%) | Absence frequency | National statisticsb (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telecoma | Post | Telecoma | Post | Telecom | Post | ||
| 2001 | 34,749 | 41,467 | 6.5 | 6.3 | 1.51 | 1.34 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 23,374 | 44,406 | 5.8 | 5.4 | 1.31 | 1.28 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 19,629 | 46,166 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 1.30 | 1.25 | 4.8 |
| 2004 | 19,091 | 44,221 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 1.22 | 1.20 | 4.3 |
| 2005 | – | 41,077 | – | 4.6 | – | 1.21 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | – | 38,223 | – | 4.3 | – | 1.17 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | – | 36,752 | – | 4.3 | – | 1.18 | 4.4 |
a The Telecom company left our occupational health services in 2005
b From 2002, the data-collection method changed several times. Public sector not included until 2004