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Manufacturing was the only industry
sector in which the number of cases
involving days of job transfer or
restriction was significantly higher
than the number of cases involving
days away from work. This sector also
reported more cases of job transfer
or restriction than any other industry
sector in 2008, with 70,800 more
estimated cases than the next-highest
industry.
The manufacturing, health care and
social assistance, and retail trade
industries made up about 58 percent of
all the cases involving job transfer and
restriction in private industry in 2008.
Health care and social assistance and
manufacturing were the two industries
with the most days-away-from-work
cases in 2008.
Number of cases with days away from
work, job transfer, or restriction,
by private industry sector, 2008
Industry sector
171.3
Health care and social assistance
Manufacturing
164.9
Retail trade
207.9
146.3
Construction
137.1
120.2
Transportation and warehousing
51.3
104.1
Wholesale trade
71.9
Accommodation and food services
69.5
Administrative and waste services
60.1
59.0
46.6
57.1
Other services (except public administration)
29.9
30.5
15.8
Real estate and rental and leasing
21.9 | 10.2
Professional and technical services
21.5 | 12.0
Information
18.1 | 9.9
Arts, entertainment, and recreation
16.7 | 15.1
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
Cases involving transfer
16.1 | 9.9
Finance and insurance
13.1 | 5.6
Mining
11.4 | 4.6
Educational services
10.6 | 5.8
Management of companies and enterprises
7.0 | 5.8
Utilities
5.9 | 4.7
131.2
0
or restriction
Cases involving away
100
200
from work
300
Number of cases (thousands)
SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, October 2009.
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