§ Mr. HammondTo ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to her answer of 12 March 2001,Official Report, column 472W, for what reasons the Office for National Statistics no longer presents the data to which she refers broken down by public and private sector. [153951]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonI have been asked to reply.
197WThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Philip Hammond, dated 20 March 2001:
The National Statistician has been asked to, reply to your recent question on why Labour Force Survey data on absence from work due to illness and injury is no longer presented by public and private sector (153951). I am replying in his absence
Information about absence from work due to sickness and injury is collected in the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The LFS also includes a question about the industrial sector hat respondents work in, which is classified to public or private sector groupings.
The LFS databases provide this information and can be accessed by the House of Commons Library. In addition, an article was published in the December 2000 issue of Labour Market Trends which includes an analysis of sickness absence in the public and private sectors for Summer 2000.