Thanks Samuel, This is very helpful.
I've created data elements in a similar way for each of the population estimates. Do you enter a single record at the national level, or do you need to create values for each orgunit in the hierarchy, from health facility up to national level? It would be ideal if we could use one single record in the database or perhaps one per year rather than having to create hundreds of records with the same values. Randy From: samuel cheburet [mailto:samuelchebu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:12 PM To: Wilson,Randy Cc: dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Advice on Population denominators Thanks Wilson for sharing. I hope kenya approarch can assist to address your need. In addressing population as denominator you require to consider the aggregation level either you want health facilities to input their catchment population and aggreated upwards to get national aggregate. Note:- this approach require careful determination of individual catchment population. In Kenya health facilities can input catchment population based on previous year coverage of service(contribution to the lowest catchment area per census figures) the contibution is applied to near year population. NB. The data on pupulation is not aggredated upwards except District population which can aggregate upwaards to minimums errors or rounding ups. Also in kenya we have CHIS which use actual population because CHEWS visit every household and he/she has actual records so there is no need of using projection/estimate but the population parameters is same. Organisation Unit [ Select from tree on the left side ] Data Set [[ Select data set ] \/] Period [[ Select period ] \/] [Prev][Next] ________________________________ Population estimates Value Population total Population female Population male Households Population under 1 year Population under 5 years Population under 15 years Population 15-24 years Women of childbearing age (15-49yrs) Estimated number of deliveries Estimated live births Population 25-59 years Population over 60 years Estimated number of emergency obstetric complications Estimated of post abortion cases Population parameters Value Area in Kilometer square Population Growth Rate Household size Vitamin A Population Category Value 6-11 Months(50%of <1yrs) 12-59 Month (80% of < 5yrs) 6-59 Months (90% of < 5yrs Regards On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Wilson,Randy <rwil...@msh.org<mailto:rwil...@msh.org>> wrote: We've been setting up DHIS-2 as a health data warehouse and dashboard for Rwanda. So far it has gone well, but I have found no useful documentation about how to manage admin unit target populations ... crucial for any coverage indicator calculations. Ideally we'd like to store the populations once per org unit - for example at the year of the national census - and then have a table of parameters such as population growth rate, and breakdowns of % population in each of the major programmatic target groups (e.g. 4.1% expected pregnancies & children <1, 23.6% women of reproductive age, etc..) that can be pulled into indicator calculations. I've tried to create these parameters as data elements, but I can't seem to use them successfully in the indicator definition screens, nor do I have any idea where the population data should be stored. Has anyone done this before? Randy Wilson _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users Post to : dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net<mailto:dhis2-users@lists.launchpad.net> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Samuel Cheburet Ministry Of Health P.O. Box 20781 Nairobi, Kenya Mobile- 0721624338 Don't Compromise The Quality! Don't Risk It! apply Available Standards to Achieve Your/organizational Goal.
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