Chapter 3 - Health
                 

Civilian Personnel Sickness Absence
Table 3.24 Number of working days lost per year due to sickness of civilian personnel1, by ICD Code
                        and industrial/non-industrial marker
The source data used in this table is from the MOD's HRMS civilian administration database. The Trading Funds each have separate administration systems which have been augmented into one data source.
Working days (thousands)
  Year ending 31 December2
2006   2007   2008   2009
 
Non-industrial total
 486.8   471.7 || 423.7   399.8
ICD category3
              
IPO
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
 41.0   41.1 || 38.6   35.2
NGB
Neoplasms
 14.4   14.7 || 13.0   14.4
PSD
Mental and behavioural disorders
 104.2   99.6 || 81.3   72.6
NSS
Diseases of the nervous system
 17.3   16.9 || 15.3   14.3
CIR
Diseases of the circulatory system
 16.9   18.3 || 17.2   15.7
DRS
Diseases of the respiratory system
 63.6   64.0 || 61.7   59.9
DDS
Diseases of the digestive system
 37.4   35.4 || 33.8   30.8
ACI
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
 36.2   37.1 || 33.2   30.5
BFO
Diseases of the blood forming organs and certain disorders
 4.2   2.7 || 2.9   3.4
DEM
Diseases of the ear and mastoid process
 5.3   4.6 || 4.6   3.5
DEY
Diseases of the eye and adnexa
 5.0   4.6 || 3.8   3.7
DGY
Diseases of the genito-urinary system
 17.8   16.4 || 14.6   14.2
EMN
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
 3.5   3.4 || 2.4   2.3
MSD
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
 62.0   64.1 || 60.3   61.2
OPP
Factors influencing health status and contact with health service
 32.6   31.1 || 27.2   26.1
PCP
Pregnancy, childbirth and the peurperium
 7.4   6.7 || 5.2   4.7
SCO
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue
 3.9   3.4 || 2.8   2.3
SID
Cause of absence not yet known
 14.1   7.5 || 5.5   5.0
                 
  Industrial total 172.8   154.8 || 133.0   117.2
Source:DASA(Statistical Methodological Group)
  Sickness rates4: number of days divided by the average strength (FTE) for that period.
  Year ending 31 December2,5
2006   2007   2008   2009
Non-industrial total
 8.04   8.22 || 7.91   7.68
Industrial total
 12.14   11.85 || 11.26   10.62
Trading Funds
 ..   ..   6.12   6.70
Source:DASA(Statistical Methodological Group)
1. This excludes Royal Fleet Auxiliary and locally engaged personnel. The uppermost table on working days lost also excludes Trading Funds personnel.
2. A break in series occurs because from 31st March 2008 strength figures exclude personnel classified as being on zero pay for any reason and sickness
    absence figures exclude absences where a person is classed as being on zero pay.
3. International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Version 10.
4. Rates are based on absence days and are Full Time Equivalent (FTE) working days lost. For example, if a part-time employee working 50% of full-time hours
    is sick for 7 calendar days, this is 5 x 50% = 2.5 FTE working days lost.
5. Trading Funds data is based on Sickness Absence since 1 April 2008.