You are right dear Knut.
________________________________ Muhire Andrew HMIS/Ministry of Health First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.. ________________________________ From: Knut Staring <[email protected]> To: Muhire Andrew <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:16 AM Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Running integrity checks on datasets with unlinked data element? This may be yet another good reason to try and move away from custom forms. I think most of your forms could work well as custom forms. Knut On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Muhire Andrew wrote: >Dear jason, >i have custom forms! > >------------------------------On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 11:54 AM PST Jason >Pickering wrote:>Seems like a good idea. Do you have section forms or custom >forms?>>>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Muhire Andrew ><[email protected]> wrote:>>>> Hi to all,>> i would like to run integrity >check to see the data element that are in dataset that are not linked to the >form. Is this possible? Not data element without dataset ( data element in >dataset that is not linked to the form). Because this affects data >completeness report(based on data values) where by the target column counts >all linked and nonlinked data elements which can confuse users. Per now i just >use a manual checking.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>------------------------------On Wed, Jan >11, 2012 2:06 AM PST Ola Hodne Titlestad wrote:>I would suggest to capture >service availability and stock-outs as separate>data elements or even orgunit >groups for services, and not as some>interpretation of a 0. Then there is no > need to capture zeros.>Once the data is aggregated up one level all this >zero/blank interpretation>is impossible anyway. The complete button also gives >an indication of>wheter data is missing of not.>Ola>On Jan 11, 2012 9:45 AM, >"Knut Staring" <[email protected]> wrote:> Here in India, the activities of >Subcenters differ quite a bit in the> particular services they offer. >Therefore, since all use a standard format,> there will almost always be a >number of fields that are not applicable.> Because of this, they maintain that >0 is signficant, because it means "Have> the service, but no cases this >month", whereas a blank field means "Don't> have the service" in other words >N/A.>>>> Sometimes it can even mean something in-between, like "We normally> >distribute Iron tablets, but sometimes we don't have them (blank), and> >sometimes we have them but there is no demand (0)". In my view the latter> >semantics is quite complicated, and hard to get consistent, but > I'm being> told the health workers handle it well. Thus, a typical report can >consist> of 50 positive integers, 7 blanks and 20 zeros.> Since data entry on >the mobile is quite cumbersome and zeros also tend to> fill up the database, I >would have preferred zeros to be non-significant> and just go with blanks. But >then we would lose the above distinction.> Knut>> --> Knut Staring> Dept. of >Informatics, University of Oslo> +4791880522> http://dhis2.org>> >_______________________________________________> Mailing list: >https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs> Post to : >[email protected]> Unsubscribe : >https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs> More help > :>> >https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>>>>> >_______________________________________________>> Mailing list: >https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users>> Post to : >[email protected]>> Unsubscribe : >https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-users>> More help : >https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >Post to : [email protected] >Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs >More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Knut Staring Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo +4791880522 http://dhis2.org
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