The chart below shows the results of three surveys on absenteeism in a particular European country in the years 2000, 2005 and 2010. The results show the reasons people gave for not going to work. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the percentage of five reasons for

people

absenting

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work

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mentioned country of Europe from 2000 to 2010.

Overall

, it could be seen that illness and family duties were the main reasons for absenteeism,

while

the opposite was true in the bar of stress.

Moreover

, there were upward trends in the portions of

people

not going to

work

due to

stress, personal needs and unexpected problems.

To begin

with, there were nearly 45% of

people

not going to

work

because of illness, which was the highest percentage in the chart,

however

declining by around 10% after 10 years. A similar trend could be seen in the second rank of percentages of individuals

absenting

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from the workplace for family responsibilities. In detail,

this

percentage started at over 25%,

then

slightly decreased to 25% in the year 2005 and 2000. Looking at the rest, the third rank of the reason why

people

were not at

work

was because of personal needs, contributing under 15% in the first year of the period,

then

soaring by 10% in 2010. Stress, meanwhile, experienced a low growth, from roughly 5% to over 10% in 10 years.

Finally

, an increase was witnessed in the figure for unexpected issues

such

as transport or weather beginning at the level of around 10%,

then

peaking at close to 15% before falling down

at the end

of the period.