The graph below shows the percentage of workers from five different European countries that were absent for a day or more due to illness from 1991 to 2001. Summaries the information by selecting reporting the main feature, and make comparisions where relevant.

The graph below shows the percentage of workers from five different European countries that were absent for a day or more due to illness from 1991 to 2001. Summaries the information by selecting reporting the main feature, and make comparisions where relevant.
The line graph illustrates the proportion of workers from five European nations including
Netherlands
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the Netherlands
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,
France
, Sweden,
UK
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the UK
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and Germany who took sick leave for a day or more during the ten-year period.
It is clear that
France
saw a significant decrease in the number of people taking time off work
due to
illness
while
there was a remarkable increase in the percentage of citizens absent from Sweden for one day or more
due to
illness
.
In addition
, the
Netherlands
had the highest rate of people taking leave from work
due to
illness
in almost all years, compared to countries other. On the one hand, in 1991 around 5% of the workforce in both the
Netherlands
and
France
have to take one day or more off work because of
illness
. Over the next five years, the rate of workers taking sick leave dropped to about 4% in the
Netherlands
and just over 3% in
France
.
Whereas
this
figure dropped slightly to less than 3% over the remaining years in
France
, the proportion of workers on sick leave in the
Netherlands
rose again to around 5.5% in 2001.
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