Table 2.

Statistics of the absence rate due to own illness or disability for European men and women (average, 2006–2020).

Mean		Median	CV	Min	Max	MW
Men	2.8%	1.2%	158.9%	0.1%	20.4%	375 **
Women	3.7%	1.5%	151.3%	0.1%	22.9%

Note: n = 32 countries. CV is the coefficient of variation; significance levels: ** p ≤ 0.05; MW—Mann-Whitney U test [64]. We used nonparametric statistics because the test of normality carried out (here the Shapiro–Wilk test) rejected the null hypothesis of normality. The MW test does not assume a normal distribution of the variables, unlike the analogous one-way analysis of variance and Student’s t-tests [65].