# 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.

WallChartBook · https://wallchartbook.com/datasets/absence-and-leave-statistics/ · computed 2026-10-05

**Median published figure:** 74.5 % (range 71 to 78 %; 2 sources with a figure; 2 of 7 sources read publish one).

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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| jurisdiction AU | 78 % | 78 to 78 % | 1 |
| jurisdiction US | 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.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [ABS Working Arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) | 78 % | AU | 2026-09-11 |
| [US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/leave.nr0.htm) | 71 % | US | 2026-09-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (2)

- [ABS Working Arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/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](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/leave.nr0.htm), 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

- [ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2025), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2023and2024), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410019401), 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

## Sources

- [ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2025](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2025) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ONS sickness absence in the UK labour market: 2023 and 2024](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/2023and2024) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS Access to and Use of Leave summary](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/leave.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS Employee Benefits in the United States summary](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US BLS table 6: selected paid leave benefits, access](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Statistics Canada table 14-10-0194-01 work absence of full-time employees](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410019401) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ABS Working Arrangements, latest release](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/working-arrangements/latest-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [the national statistical agency per jurisdiction](https://ilostat.ilo.org/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ons.gov.uk](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/labourproductivity/articles/sicknessabsenceinthelabourmarket/previousreleases) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- 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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