Managing absence records: data in full

IRS's research into the use that employers are making of their absence records is accompanied in this file by a full breakdown of our findings by broad economic sector and workforce size.

On this page:
How our survey findings are broken down by sector and size in the tables
How IRS has calculated employers’ corporate absence targets
Averages, medians and quartiles: an explanation
Table 1: How accurate are employers’ absence records?
Table 2a: The uses to which employers put their absence records: breakdown by broad economic sector
Table 2b: The uses to which employers put their absence records: breakdown by number of employees
Table 3: The types of absences that employers’ triggers and thresholds focus on
Table 4: The actions that employers can take when they review individuals’ absence records
Table 5: Whether or not employers have set themselves a corporate absence target
Table 6: Employers’ corporate absence targets
Table 7: Do employers achieve their corporate absence targets?
Managing absence: records, triggers and targets: the main report

How our survey findings are broken down by sector and size in the tables

Our survey findings are analysed in two different ways.