Hi all,

I am looking at sickness absence in various occupations in LFS data. The dataset contains the vairables ILLDAYS1-7 detailing whether an individual was ill on that day of the week with ILLDAYS1 being the first day of the week the individual was ill and ILLDAYS7 being the 7th day of the week they were ill on. Ideally, I would like to aggregate ILLDAYS into a single variable that tells me how many days of the reference week the individual was ill for. Is there a way I can do this?

Thanks