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["Wilson,Randy" <rwilson@xxxxxxx>]

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:samuelcheburet@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:12 PM
To: Wilson,Randy
Cc: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.


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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 <rwilson@xxxxxxx<mailto:rwilson@xxxxxxx>> 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

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