31 Sickness absence man-days2 for employees. In per cent of scheduled man-days (Sickness absence
rate), by industry and institutional sector1. 2rd quarter 2004 and 2005

  Institutional sector
  Total Private sector/publ. ent. Central government Local government
Næring Quarter 2 2004 Quarter 2 2005 Quarter 2 2004 Quarter 2 2005 Quarter 2 2004 Quarter 2 2005 Quarter 2 2004 Quarter 2 2005
TOTAL 7,2 6,3 6,8 5,9 6,6 6,0 8,8 7,9
  01-05 Agriculture,fishing and forestry 5,9 4,9 5,8 4,9 - - - -
  10,12-37 Manufacturing and mining 7,2 6,0 7,2 6,0 - - - -
  40-41 Electricity, gas and water supply 4,5 4,6 4,4 4,6 - - - -
  45 Construction 7,3 6,1 7,3 6,1 - - - -
  50-55 Domestic trade, hotels, rest. 6,7 5,9 6,7 5,9 - - - -
  60-64 Transport and communication 7,8 6,7 7,9 6,7 - - - -
  65-67 Financial intermediation 5,2 4,6 5,2 4,6 - - - -
  70-74 Real estate, business act. 5,6 4,9 5,6 4,8 - - - -
  75 Public administration 6,3 5,7 - - 5,3 4,8 7,5 7,0
  80 Education 6,8 6,1 6,1 5,6 4,8 4,1 7,3 6,6
  85 Health and social work 9,7 8,6 9,2 8,0 8,5 7,8 10,7 9,4
  90-99 Services n.e.c. 6,9 6,2 6,9 6,2 - - 7,3 6,2

2 Easter was in the first quarter in 2005 and in the second quarter in 2004. This is influential
when we compare second quarter figures from these two years. Especially, scheduled man-days
are lower during the Easter than during a normal week in this time of the year. Easter has
a stronger influence on scheduled man-days
than on man-days lost due to sickness abscense. If we did not take the Easter into account, the sickness
absence rate for the second quarter in 2004 would have dropped nearly 0.1 percentage points
for most of the groups.
1 Certain combinations of industry and institutional sector contain to few enterprises for numbers
to be presented.In such cases may there occur minor differences between the estimate for the industry
as a whole and the estimate for an institutional sector, even if an estimate is only provided for one
sector.