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Re: Urgent feedback required

 

Why not just make the dataset daily and transform all monthly data such
that it occurs on the last day of the month?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need some urgent feedback on one very specific issue:
>
> 1.
> We have a lot of monthly data that have been captured on a daily basis
> (up to now in 1.4). The data is in reality monthly aggregated data
> because it is the monthly totals that are used for indicators,
> analysis, reports etc - but the data is captured daily into DHIS to
> enable consistency/completeness tracking and to cut down on the
> erroneous manual data compilation from paper forms at the end of every
> month.
>
> 2.
> Initially, the HISP team converted these daily captured values in 1.4
> into datavalues in DHIS2 with dataperiodtype = daily. This approach
> has various shortcomings, in particular when the use of daily
> capturing is slowly being rolled out - meaning that while let us say
> 30% of all facilities captured data on a daily basis themselves, the
> remaining 70% are still submitting monthly summary forms to the
> sub-district office for capturing as monthly total data.
>
> 3.
> I believe a more logical approach is to store the daily data (Day01,
> Day02, ...., Day31) as categories - as mentioned, we are in general
> NOT using those daily values for anything beyond the initial data
> quality and completeness process.
>
> QUESTION:
> 1. Are there any major drawbacks to storing these daily values as
categories?
>
> 2. Are there any major limitations with regard to the design of data
> entry forms that will make it difficult to have a "matrix" type data
> entry form where
> (a) the user select OrgUnit, DataSet, and the DATE (as in 2015-01-30)
> (b) the year/month part of that date determines the dataperiodid
> (c) the day portion of the date determines which category will be the
> right-most column in the data entry matrix
> (d) we can display let us say 7 preceding days in the matrix to assist
> the data capturer with eyeballing data during capture (dynamic
> selection & display of categories).
>
> So the entry form would show up as
> DataElement Day23 Day24 Day25 Day26 Day27 Day28 Day29 Day30
> <data element1> 17 14 15 22 18
> 19 20 <entry>
> <data element2> 13 11 19 8 15
> 12 10 <entry>
>
> Any quick feedback would be appreciated
>
> Regards
> Calle
>
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