Table 1.

Linkage of study definitions to the weekly report.

	"Symptoms" mean symptoms of respiratory infection or vomiting/diarrhea disease
	Healthy at work or out of work as designed	At work with symptoms	Symptoms, but not supposed to be at work	Part of the day at work with symptoms	Absent due to symptoms	Absent due to child's symptoms; own symptoms as well	Absent due to child's symptoms; self healthy	Other reason for absence
Infection episode*		x	x	x	x	x
Sick leave episode				x	x
Absence episode				x	x	x	x

* RTI and/or GTI episodes will be defined the same way based on reported RTI and/or GTI symptoms