Schools know that students are missing but don't look at the data by student to show individual absenteeism rates.

Mr. Miller said the absenteeism rate was now 22 days a year per employee.

It wants to reduce absenteeism, saying the daily absenteeism rate for union members is 6 percent.

The annual employee turnover rate is less than 5 percent, and absenteeism rates range from 0-3 percent per month.

The village absenteeism rate is still high, because of the relatively long distance between the settlements and the food (sago) resources.

Objective measures have also been used and include blood pressure rate, muscle tension, and absenteeism rates.

For example, comparing absenteeism rates between departments may enable you to spread good working practices from the best-performing areas of your business.

Absenteeism rates were astronomical in the early years, as workers unused to the discipline of factory life were given multiple chances to shape up.

In some school districts, kindergarten absenteeism rates are nearly as high as those in high school.

A study has found that, contrary to some perceptions, older workers can be retrained, have lower absenteeism rates and are often better salespeople than younger workers.

The absenteeism rate in industry is 9 percent lower than the absenteeism on the U.S. mainland, and it has declined steadily since 1971.

In 2003, Health & Lifestyles was hired to help promote healthier lifestyles, increase employee morale, and combat rising health care costs and absenteeism rates.

The 'Vations The evening of Dec. 4, only two men showed up for the fatherhood seminar, an absenteeism rate that Strive managers attributed to the holidays.

Complicating the picture was a 67 percent absenteeism rate in Sunday's elections, almost as high as the record 70 percent reached in legislative elections in March.

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Despite the high enrollment rate, poverty, poor school facilities, and the periodic need to help with family farm harvests have resulted in approximately a 7 percent absenteeism rate among primary school children.

Postal Service officials acknowledged yesterday that workers at Morgan were so worried about being infected that the absenteeism rate there was running at nearly 30 percent - five times the usual rate.

In lieu of such organizations, Iraqi units operate at any given time with an estimated 10-20% absenteeism rate due to soldiers temporarily leaving their units to deliver their pay back to their families.

"People here have a real pride in their work, they are generally very well educated, and our absenteeism rate is 2 percent," said Paolo Narciso, who helped open the two Sykes centers last year.

Examining data on 858 newly hired bank employees, Andrea Ichino, an economist at the European University in Florence, found that the absenteeism rate more than doubled after workers had completed the three-month probationary period.

School Absentee Rate Soars In Utah, where the normal absentee rate in public schools is 3 percent, the State Health Department says school districts are reporting absenteeism rates ranging from 15 percent to 30 percent.

The crux of the case brought by the civil liberties union is that the absenteeism rate never hit the 18-percentage-point threshold the board itself had set, said Mr. Vasvari of the Ohio A.C.L.U. "The threshold policy is a sham," he said.