Work Absence Duration Statistics by Start Year, Age, and Gender

Sheila Timp's dataset provides basic information on work absence durations. It includes mean and median absence duration in weeks, categorized by the year the absence began, along with age and gender data. The dataset is 5.5 KB in size, stored in XLS format, and was last updated on May 5, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in work absence duration based on the year the absence began.
• Comparing mean and median absence weeks across different demographic groups.
• Investigating correlations between age, gender, and absence length over multiple years.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Data is categorized by year, age, and gender, allowing for multi-dimensional analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description is minimal, providing only basic information about the dataset's contents.

Provenance

Source

Sheila Timp via figshare

Time Range

Categorized by the year in which the absence began.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 17:43:32; freshness should be verified.