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[Nayeem Al Mifthah <n.mifthah@xxxxxxxxx>]

Might be same behavior desires for totals as well.

Regards,
Nayeem Al Mifthah
Kindly ignore typos.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 22:35 Nayeem Al Mifthah, <n.mifthah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Lars and others
> I have commented on an old issue DHIS2-575 about the desired behaviour ...
>
> I think expected behavior should calculate the element aggregation as per
> aggregation type of that perticular data elements first and later calculate
> the indicator. Example:
>
> If number of patient visited OPD in January is 200 and number of admission
> in January is 40. In that case, comparison of admission to OPD is 20%.
>
> And in February, number of OPD visit in February is 400 and admission is
> 200. % of admission to OPD in February will be 50%.
>
>
>
> If I want to see the same indicator in January+February, it is showing
> liniar average of two months indicator like (20+50)/2= 35%
>
> It should show, (40+200)/(200+400)=30%
>
> I think it should aggregate the element according to aggregation type of
> that element at first and then calculate indicator.
>
>
> Regards,
> Nayeem Al Mifthah
> Kindly ignore typos.
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 22:14 Lars Helge Øverland, <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gourav,
>>
>> thanks and, perhaps surprisingly, this is expected behavior as of now.
>> Indicators are often percentages, and it does not make sense to summarize a
>> lot percentages across different indicators; it makes more sense to average
>> them.
>>
>> That said, sometimes indicators represents plain sums of data elements
>> (no denominator, or denominator = 1), so we are working on some refinements
>> here which we will backport.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Lars
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 08:09, gourav sachdeva <gouravsachdeva95@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Team,
>>>
>>> I'm facing an issue in a pivot table, version 2.28 while calculating the
>>> total of indicators.
>>>
>>> Whenever I try to generate the pivot report with indicators it shows the
>>> average instead of the sum in the total section. I checked, the same issue
>>> has been created on Jira and the status is resolved but I am still facing
>>> the above mentioned.
>>>
>>> https://jira.dhis2.org/browse/DHIS2-3350
>>>
>>> Version: 2.28
>>> Build Revision: 6657e9d
>>> Build Date: 2018-09-17 03:20
>>>
>>> The screenshot is enclosed for the reference with the mail.
>>> Looking forward to your response.
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Thanks & Regards,*
>>>
>>> *Gourav Sachdeva*
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>>
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