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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Value Health. 2022 Aug 13;26(5):712–720. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2022.06.014

Table 1:

Distribution of Caregiving-Related Productivity Loss and Reasons for Work Absence among Employed Family Caregivers (n=844)

Panel A: Distribution of Caregiving-Related Productivity Loss among Employed Caregivers

Type of Productivity Loss Weighted Estimates (n) Percentage Affected %
All Employed Family Caregivers 8,762,000 (844) 100.00
 No Work Productivity Loss 6,721,000 (638) 76.70
 Any Work Productivity Loss 2,041,000 (206) 23.30
 --Absenteeism only 798,000 (81) 9.11
 --Presenteeism only 863,000 (81) 9.85
 --Both Absenteeism and 380,000 (44) 4.34
Presenteeism
*High Work Productivity Loss 974,000(102) 11.12

Panel B: Average Percentage of Work Time Lost in the Last Month due to Caregiving

Source of Lost Work Time All Caregivers n=844 (% and 95% CI) Caregivers Affected by Any Productivity Loss, n=206 (% and 95% CI)
Absenteeism 1.96 (1.35, 2.57) 8.04 (5.74, 10.34)
Presenteeism 6.85 (5.55, 8.14) 28.06 (23.90, 32.21)
Overall Work Productivity Loss 8.30 (6.90, 9.70) 34.01 (29.93, 38.09)

Source: 2015 National Study of Caregiving. Estimates are weighted and rounded to the nearest 1000.

*

High work productivity loss is defined as missing more than the median lost time from work among those who experienced either absenteeism or presenteeism, which was 23.1% nationally, from weighted estimates.

Work productivity loss estimates are calculated for each observation and then the average is generated for the sample. This value differs slightly from calculating work productivity loss manually using average sample absenteeism and presenteeism estimates, due to variation in each observation’s standard deviation relative to sample mean estimates.