AQW 527/07 Written question to the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment
To ask the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to detail the existing data on the cost to the Northern Ireland economy of working days lost due to stress or illness related to family breakdown.
Asked by Naomi Long MLA on 6 June 2007
- Answered
- Written
- Tabled
- 6 June 2007
- Answer due by
- 20 June 2007
- Answered
- 12 June 20076 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for the Economy
- Priority question
- No
Answer
There are currently no estimates available on the cost to the economy of working days lost due to stress or illness related to a family breakdown. It is however possible to use the Northern Ireland Labour Force Survey (LFS) to estimate the total number of working days that are lost due to any illness or injury in a specified reference week. For information, figures from the January – March 2007 LFS estimate that 30,000 scheduled working days were lost per week due to sick absence.