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title: "Guide: Analysing sickness absence"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Guide: Analysing sickness absence

Absence analysis lets you analyse your attendance data in different ways, such as rolling-year analysis, breakdown of absence by department, long-term sickness, Bradford Factors and more.

- [Introduction to sickness absence analysis](/iq/docs/how-do-i-analyse-sickness-absence)
- [Prepare for absence analysis](/iq/docs/how-do-i-prepare-for-absence-analysis)
- [Create an absence analysis definition](/iq/docs/how-do-i-create-an-absence-analysis-definition)
- [Create an absence analysis extract](/iq/docs/how-do-i-create-an-absence-analysis-extract)
- [Run the absence analysis report](/iq/docs/how-do-i-run-the-absence-analysis-report)