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Sickness absence FTE days per employee (689) Metric type
- Description
- Formula: Sickness Absence (FTE days per employee) is calculated by taking the total number of days absence over financial year and divinding by the average number of FTE over the financial yearDefinition:The sickness absence calculation should include all staff (including school based support staff), but exclude teachers and all staff in fire services. It should be calculated for the financial year (beginning on the 1 April and ending on the 31 March).
- Help text
- Rationale:
This indicator is collected through the Local Government Workforce Survey. The question is: 'Please complete the following table and provide the sickness absence rate for the current financial year?'
Definition:
Formula -
Sickness Absence (FTE days per employee) is calculated by taking the Total number of days absence over financial year and divinding by the average number of FTE over the financial year
Definition -
The sickness absence calculation should include all staff (including school based support staff), but exclude teachers and all staff in fire services. It should be calculated for the financial year (beginning on the 1 April and ending on the 31 March).
Further details:
This annual survey is conducted by LGA Research and Information. The survey is sent to all heads of human resources in England between June and September. Please note the response rate of this survey varies from year to year, and further information can be found at http://new.lga.gov.uk/lga/core/page.do?pageId=1254939
Additionally, not all authorities consent to share their data in LG Inform. Employees covered by the questionnaire include all directly employed staff (including school based support staff) and excludes teachers and all staff in fire services.
- Modified
- 26 Jun 2020
- Data last updated
- 20 Sep 2023
- Also known as
- Sickness Absence rate
- Short label
- Sickness absence rate
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Days per employee
- Dataset
- Sickness absence FTE days per employee
- Collection
- Workforce Survey
- Source
- Local Government Association
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