{"id":6397,"date":"2022-04-29T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6397"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:30:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-currently-employed-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-had-paid-sick-leave-benefits-at-last-weeks-job-or-business-by-region-national-health-interview-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/04\/29\/6397\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Currently Employed Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Had Paid Sick Leave Benefits\u00a0at Last Week\u2019s Job or Business, by Region \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019 and 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7117a4-F.gif?_=76913\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"221\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of currently employed adults who had access to paid sick leave increased from 62.1% in 2019 to 66.5% in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this period, increases were noted among all regions of the country (Northeast: from 65.6% to 69.8%, Midwest: from 60.1% to 64.5%, South: from 59.1% to 63.5%, and West: from 65.8% to 70.3%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In both years, rates were highest in the Northeast and West and lowest in the Midwest and South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Health Interview Survey, 2019\u20132020 data.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7117a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7117a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of currently employed adults who had access to paid sick leave increased from 62.1% in 2019 to 66.5% in 2020. During this period, increases were noted among all regions of the country (Northeast: from 65.6% to 69.8%, Midwest: from 60.1% to 64.5%, South: from 59.1% to 63.5%, and West: from 65.8% to 70.3%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752,63753],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}