| Monthly job absence rates, which measure worker days lost due to unscheduled absences, declined from 1.5 percent of scheduled worker days in the first quarter of 2006 to 1.2 percent in the second quarter to 1.1 percent in the third quarter.
Through September 2006, the last period for whih figures are available, monthly absence rates average 1.3 percent of scheduled worker days, another historic low and a clear decline from the 1.6 percent figures through the first nine months of 2005.
| Monthly Absence Average |
Jan. – Sept. 2006 |
| Fewer than 250 employees |
1.1 percent |
| 250 – 499 employees |
0.6 percent |
| Manufacturing |
1.1 percent |
| Non-Manufacturing |
1.2 percent |
| Health Care |
1.6 percent |
| Western Region |
1.0 percent |
Median separation rates (excluding layoffs, reductions-in-force, and departures of temporary staff) continue to rise in the third quarter of 2006. The median monthly separation rate rose from 1.0 percent of employers’ workforces in the first quarter of the year to the 1.1 percent in the second quarter to 1.3 percent in the third quarter.
The median monthly separation rate of 1.1 percent through the first nine months of 2006 is equivalent to the separation rate of 1.1 percent observed during the first nine months of 2005, although current figures represent an uptick from the nine-month totals recorded in 2004, (1.0 percent) and 2003, (0.9 percent).
| Monthly Turnover Average |
Jan. – Sept. 2006 |
| Fewer than 250 employees |
1.1 percent |
| 250 – 499 employees |
1.1 percent |
| Manufacturing |
1.3 percent |
| Non-Manufacturing |
1.1 percent |
| Health Care |
1.1 percent |
| Western Region |
0.9 percent |
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