{ "name": "WallChartBook Absence And Leave Statistics", "title": "Absence And Leave Statistics", "url": "https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics/", "csv": "https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics.csv", "markdown": "https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-05", "license": "https://wallchartbook.com/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Absence And Leave Statistics is 74.50 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 71 to 78 percent), read 12 September 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Absence And Leave Statistics is 74.50 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 71 to 78 percent), read 12 September 2026.", "2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 September 2026.", "Absence And Leave Statistics, jurisdiction AU: median 78 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026.", "Absence And Leave Statistics, jurisdiction US: median 71 percent across 1 source, read 12 September 2026." ], "citation": "\"WallChartBook Absence And Leave Statistics\", updated 2026-10-05, https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics/.", "changed_since": null, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 74.5, "min": 71, "max": 78, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 74.5, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 9, "read_sources": 7, "not_published": 5, "published_share": 0.286 }, "by_axis": { "jurisdiction": { "AU": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 78, "min": 78, "max": 78, "p25": 78, "p75": 78, "mean": 78 } }, "US": { "%": { "n": 1, "median": 71, "min": 71, "max": 71, "p25": 71, "p75": 71, "mean": 71 } } } }, "rows": [ { "source": "ABS Working Arrangements, latest release", "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release", "figure": "78%", "value": 78, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "AU" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11", "quote": "78% of employees were entitled to employer provided paid parental leave.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "96239a1d5dce5d5e1d4ab9ba183770ffda15b55a5ed8d33b6a3a7722b5a7c381" }, { "source": "US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/leave.nr0.htm", "figure": "71 percent", "value": 71, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": { "jurisdiction": "US" }, "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "quote": "--On average, 71 percent of wage and salary workers had access to paid leave at their jobs.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "d8819c9fb63ecedd4ed38c263f97af07db478491d1b046293c415f607bdebdf0" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2025", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2023and2024", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access", "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees", "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410019401", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2025", "label": "ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2023and2024", "label": "ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/leave.nr0.htm", "label": "US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm", "label": "US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm", "label": "US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410019401", "label": "Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release", "label": "ABS Working Arrangements, latest release", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://ilostat.ilo.org/", "label": "the national statistical agency per jurisdiction", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/previousreleases", "label": "ons.gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 70 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per jurisdiction: the sickness absence rate and days lost per worker (ONS, StatCan, ABS) beside the share of workers with access to paid leave of each kind (BLS); the derivation is the join nobody publishes - absence taken per worker against paid-leave ACCESS, by jurisdiction and over time, which is the figure every 'is this normal' guide on the site opens on", "embed": "

74.50 percent

median published figure, Absence And Leave Statistics, across 2 sources, read 12 September 2026

Source: WallChartBook Absence And Leave Statistics
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