All-cause work absenteeism among selected groups of apprentices, skilled and unskilled workers in a Swiss factory producing electrical equipment was recorded during 1955, and later measured and compared. An evaluation of the relationship between absenteeism and the age, civil status and origin of the worker, has been attempted, and the annual and weekly incidence of sickness absenteeism assessed. The report is divided into three parts, devoted respectively to the background, results and conclusions of the survey. The second part introduces a new morbidity code based on the Sixth Revision of the International Lists of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death, which was used for recording the sickness absenteeism, and this code represents an important feature of the survey. The investigation has shown: comparatively higher sickness absenteeism disability and severity rates, together with a lower frequency rate, for the group of skilled workers; occupational and non-occupational accidents as the leading cause of absenteeism, followed by diseases of the respiratory, circulatory and digestive systems, respectively; the numerical importance and special features of absences recorded under “symptoms and illdefined conditions”; a greater absenteeism incidence rate during the first part of the year and the week; the predominance of short absences; and the responsibility of “repeaters” for more than half of the whole group's sickness absenteeism. This report ends with a number of practical considerations on the value and the technique of absenteeism recording in factories.

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R. M. Malan,.A survey on work absenteeism in a Swiss factory. 3 (1),173-203.

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