Labour force survey, Q4 2018

Employed persons aged 15-74 and absence from work during the whole reference week, by reason for absence and sex (LFS). 1 000
	Annual average		3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018
	2017	2018	3rd quarter 2017	4th quarter 2017	1st quarter 2018	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018
Both sexes
In total	2 647	2 694	2 658	2 652	2 660	2 697	2 713	2 708
At work	2 217	2 255	1 938	2 285	2 313	2 407	1 979	2 325
Temporarily absent, total	430	439	720	367	347	290	734	383
Illness	90	92	84	96	111	80	81	96
Holiday	220	227	536	135	102	96	558	150
Taking time off/ working time arrangement	37	39	30	46	42	32	26	57
Laid off	2	1	1	1	2	1	0	0
Other reason/ unspecified	82	80	69	88	91	80	68	79

Males
In total	1 394	1 427	1 401	1 396	1 404	1 428	1 441	1 434
At work	1 192	1 218	1 050	1 227	1 242	1 293	1 083	1 252
Temporarily absent, total	202	209	351	169	162	135	358	182
Illness	39	42	36	43	51	35	41	41
Holiday	114	117	273	73	55	50	278	84
Taking time off/ working time arrangement	22	24	19	25	24	21	18	34
Laid off	1	1	1	1	2	1	0	0
Other reason/ unspecified	26	25	21	27	30	28	21	22

Females
In total	1 253	1 268	1 257	1 256	1 256	1 269	1 272	1 274
At work	1 025	1 038	887	1 058	1 070	1 114	896	1 073
Temporarily absent, total	228	230	370	198	186	155	376	201
Illness	51	50	47	53	59	45	40	54
Holiday	106	110	264	62	47	46	280	67
Taking time off/ working time arrangement	15	15	10	21	18	11	8	23
Laid off	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Other reason/ unspecified	57	55	48	61	61	53	47	57

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