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[Murod Latifov <mlatifov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

Ignoring true zeros will affect average figure. e.g. division by number of
occurence will be wrong if you didn't save zero.

regards,
murod

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Muhire Andrew <muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
> *Muhire Andrew
> *
> *HMIS/Ministry of Health*
> *God is my provider.*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *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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