The following table gives information for teacher sickness absence including numbers in local authority maintained schools for calendar years 2000 to 2006.
The reasons teachers take sickness absence, including stress related illnesses are not collected centrally.
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 20062 Percentage of teachers taking sickness absence3 55 55 57 57 55 55 57 Days sick per teacher3 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.4 5.3 5.2 5.3 Days sick per teacher taking sickness absence 9.9 10.0 9.3 9.6 9.5 9.3 9.3 Number of teachers taking sickness absence 273,300 279,200 293,400 298,100 292,800 300,700 309,000 Total days sickness absence taken 2,694,400 2,782,100 2,739,300 2,853,600 2,796,100 2,796,000 2,880,400 1 Provisional. 2 Includes estimated figures for those local authorities that did not provide complete data or provided potentially inaccurate data. 3 Based on an estimate of the number of teachers that have worked in the maintained sector during the calendar year. Source: 618g survey