AQW 527/07

Mrs Naomi Long
Alliance Party
East Belfast

Tabled Date: 06/06/2007
Answered On Date: 12/06/2007
Priority Written: No

Question:
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.

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.