Workplace Stress Stats

Posted: Dec. 1, 2004

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have researched how much time is lost at the workplace due to employees missing work to deal with stress and anxiety disorders.

Anxiety, stress, and neurotic disorders often more severely affect employees than the average injury or illness. Here is a look at some statistics from the study.

Number of days missed
Compared with all nonfatal injury and illness cases, the anxiety, stress, and neurotic disorder cases tended to involve higher percentages of long-term work loss. In 2001, 42.1% of these cases involved 31 or more days away from work. The median number of days away from work was 25 for anxiety, stress, and neurotic disorders — substantially greater than the median of 6 for all nonfatal injury and illness cases.

Age
Employees under age 45 accounted for the majority of cases. Workers aged 25 to 34 accounted for 25.5% of cases, and workers aged 35 to 44 accounted for 28.2% of cases.

Sex
Female workers accounted for the majority of anxiety, stress, and neurotic disorder cases during 1992 through 2001.

Race/Ethnicity
Caucasian, non-Hispanic workers accounted for the majority of cases (64.8%). African-American workers accounted for 9.6% of cases and Hispanic workers accounted for 20.7%.

Occupation
Technical, sales, and administrative support along with managerial and professional specialty occupations constituted 63.5% of anxiety, stress, and neurotic disorder cases.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

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