What does bereavement leave mean (2 sources)
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.
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2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 September 2026.
By jurisdiction
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdictionAU | 78% | 78 to 78% | 1 |
| jurisdictionUS | 71% | 71 to 71% | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABS Working Arrangements, latest release | 78% | AU | 2026-09-11 |
| US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary | 71% | US | 2026-09-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- ABS Working Arrangements, latest release, read 2026-09-11:
78% of employees were entitled to employer provided paid parental leave.
- US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary, read 2026-09-12:
--On average, 71 percent of wage and salary workers had access to paid leave at their jobs.
Read in full, publishes no figure
5 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
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
70 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (9)
- ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ABS Working Arrangements, latest release(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- the national statistical agency per jurisdiction(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ons.gov.uk(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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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.
Cite as: "WallChartBook Absence And Leave Statistics", updated 2026-10-05, https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics/.
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