title: Absenteeism in the workforce, Klang Valley, Malaysia--preliminary report.
abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of sickness absenteeism among the three types of agencies, government, semi-government (boards) and private (public) companies. The methodology involved eliciting retrospective data on medical leave over the year 1990 by requesting the agencies to fill up a questionnaire (Appendix I), and calculating the indices of absenteeism from this data. The results show that the private agencies scored higher for all the indices but only the "lost time" percentage was significantly increased. Females also had significantly higher severity of sickness absenteeism rates in all the agencies. Overtime work was associated with higher absenteeism indices, markedly noted in the private agencies. In conclusion, agencies showed work out their own indices of absenteeism so that it could be compared with national rates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Indran
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Gopal
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Omar
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D005260:Female; D006076:Government; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires