Economically Active Population Survey Illnesses Persons who are employed or who stopped working no more than 8 years ago, who have had a work-related illness, by professional status of the work that caused or aggravated the illness Units: thousands of persons and percentages Absolute value Percentage Both sexes Men Women Both sexes Men Women Total 1,632.4 824.5 807.8 100.00 100.00 100.00 Self-employed workers 221.6 129.4 92.1 13.57 15.70 11.41 Wage earners of the public sector 191.5 70.7 120.8 11.73 8.57 14.96 Wage earners of the private sector 755.3 382.0 373.3 46.27 46.33 46.21 Another professionl status . . . . . . No data recorded 464.0 242.4 221.6 28.42 29.40 27.43 Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) The illness or health problem must have taken place within the 12 months prior to the Sunday of the reference week Work-related illness refers to an illness caused or aggravated by the current or previous work No data recorded=Persons who have had an illness or health problem in a work whose professional status is not described in the EAPS (they answer 0 or 5 in question 20 of the module, 5 corresponding to a work other than the main one, secondary or from the last one and 0 to 'they do not know'. In this case, there is information available of the professional status a year ago, for those who answered 4 in question 20 of the module) Source: National Statistics Institute