The rates of worker sickness absence for non-industrial and industrial civil servants in the Ministry of Defence 2005, 2006 and financial year 2006-07 is shown in the following table:
Non industrial Industrial Combined 20052 8.55 12.54 9.30 20062 8.04 12.14 8.82 2006-072 8.03 12.22 8.82 1 Sickness absence rates are based on FTE working days lost. For example, if a full-time employee is sick for seven calendar days, this is five working days lost and five FTE working days lost, and if a part-time employee (working 50 per cent. full-time hours) is sick for seven calendar days, this is five working days lost and two and a half FTE working days lost. 2 Excludes Ministry of Defence staff in Trading Funds and Royal Fleet Auxiliaries.
Rates listed are based on a revised Cabinet Office definition for sickness absence which excludes annual leave allowance and bank holidays, and caps FTE sickness absence days across a year to a maximum of 225 days. Recording of absence data against this revised definition has only been carried out since calendar year 2005.