---
title: "Guide: Analysing sickness absence"
slug: "guide-analysing-sickness-absence"
description: "Set up and run absence analysis to review sickness data by department, rolling year, long-term trends, and Bradford Factor."
updated: 2026-06-10T11:19:12Z
published: 2026-06-10T11:19:12Z
canonical: "help.cintra.co.uk/guide-analysing-sickness-absence"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cintra.co.uk/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 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)