"Figure 7: The number of those temporarily away from a job started to slowly decrease throughout May","" "Total number of persons temporarily away from paid work, seasonally adjusted, UK, January to May 2017 to January to May 2020","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Thousands" "","" "Week","2017","2018","2019","2020" "Q1 week 1"," 1979 "," 2370 "," 2550 "," 2110 " "Q1 week 2"," 2051 "," 2306 "," 2157 "," 2251 " "Q1 week 3"," 2358 "," 2150 "," 2216 "," 2165 " "Q1 week 4"," 2286 "," 2232 "," 2230 "," 2267 " "Q1 week 5"," 2150 "," 2341 "," 2028 "," 2401 " "Q1 week 6"," 2432 "," 2333 "," 2314 "," 2130 " "Q1 week 7"," 2222 "," 2507 "," 2008 "," 2214 " "Q1 week 8"," 2117 "," 2195 "," 2235 "," 2429 " "Q1 week 9"," 2351 "," 2208 "," 2126 "," 2283 " "Q1 week 10"," 2410 "," 1982 "," 2345 "," 2273 " "Q1 week 11"," 2121 "," 2327 "," 1982 "," 2552 " "Q1 week 12"," 1993 "," 2341 "," 2007 "," 2963 " "Q1 week 13"," 2427 "," 2371 "," 2199 "," 6693 " "Q2 week 1"," 2126 "," 2199 "," 2248 "," 6999 " "Q2 week 2"," 2137 "," 2606 "," 2410 "," 6382 " "Q2 week 3"," 2269 "," 2057 "," 2273 "," 6800 " "Q2 week 4"," 2088 "," 2009 "," 2013 "," 8758 " "Q2 week 5"," 2058 "," 2143 "," 2183 "," 8546 " "Q2 week 6"," 2319 "," 2055 "," 2218 "," 8430 " "Q2 week 7"," 2137 "," 2397 "," 2101 "," 8073 " "Q2 week 8"," 2126 "," 2268 "," 2237 "," 7564 " "Q2 week 9"," 2166 "," 2211 "," 2431 "," 6344 "