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[Muhire Andrew <muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mark,
Most people takes zero as a data, that is also the way i believe but in other side there are people who dont like zero`s to appear in their database in that case they dont store it in their data (durin the creation of data element ) . But you have to think also on this:  zero is different from blank fields(Because if you ignore zero, data quality for completeness of the data fields will be more complicated because here you see all filled fields and unfilled fields with percentage).So this means when you activate " dont store zero", the system will automatically ignore zero`s.

 Note that : This can also depend on the data management protocols of the institution.

Thanks


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Muhire Andrew

HMIS/Ministry of Health
God is my provider.



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From: Mark Spohr <mhspohr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:35 AM
Subject: [Dhis2-users] DHIS zeros and saving data?


Hi,
We just started data entry and things are going well and they like the data entry.
I just have a few questions.

Zeros:
- All of the data items are set to "Don't store zeros".... what does that mean?
When totaling, aggregating, averaging, etc.  will these data fields be counted as zeros?

Related.. on data entry I have them skipping over zero fields leaving them blank... I assume this will be assumed to be a zero?

Also,  there doesn't seem to be an explicit "SAVE FORM" but the data does appear to be saved (even though the User General Settings does NOT have the "Auto-save data entry form" box checked).  How does this work?

Thanks for this great software!
-- 
Mark Spohr, MD


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