Absenteeism. The ABX Company is interested in conducting a study of the factors that affec...

Absenteeism. The ABX Company is interested in conducting a study of the factors that affect absenteeism among its production employees. After reviewing the literature on absenteeism and interviewing several production supervisors and a number of employees, the researcher in charge of the project defined the variables shown in Figure 4.25. Then a sample of 77 employees was randomly selected, and the data contained in the file on the CD named ABSENT4 was collected. The dependent variable is absenteeism. The other variables are considered possible explanatory variables.

Use the procedures discussed in Chapters 3 and 4 to identify factors that may be related to absenteeism. Write down your final model and justify your choice of variables in the model. Check to see if your choice of variables and the coefficient estimates make intuitive sense. How much variation in absenteeism has been explained? What does this tell you? Does your model give you some sense of which employees might be absent most often? If so, which ones? What might be done to reduce absenteeism?

Figure 4.25: Absenteeism Study Variables.