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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12 May 2011 11:06, Wilson,Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Samuel,
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> This is very helpful.
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> 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.
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Are you talking about the population figures themselves or the parameters
here?

Ola
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> *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
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> 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.
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> 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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> Organisation Unit
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> [ Select from tree on the left side ]
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> Data Set
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> Period
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> Population estimates
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> *Value*
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> Population total
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> Population female
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> Population male
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> Households
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> Population under 1 year
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> Population under 5 years
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> Population under 15 years
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> Population 15-24 years
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> Women of childbearing age (15–49yrs)
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> Estimated number of deliveries
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> Estimated live births
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> Population 25-59 years
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> Population over 60 years
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> Estimated number of emergency obstetric complications
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> Estimated of post abortion cases
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> Population parameters
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> *Value*
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> Area in Kilometer square
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> Population Growth Rate
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> Household size
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> Vitamin A Population Category
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> *Value*
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> 6-11 Months(50%of <1yrs)
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> 12-59 Month (80% of < 5yrs)
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> 6-59 Months (90% of < 5yrs
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> Regards
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> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Wilson,Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Has anyone done this before?
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> Randy Wilson
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