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[Johan Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to add to this:

If you don't have pop data below a certain level, but plenty of other 
data in DHIS, you can always estimate population by looking at service 
data. This needs some work, and is dependent on decent (and uniform) 
data completeness.

Example: Region 1, with a known population, and under it: District A, B, 
C with unknown population.

Find a basket of data elements that should reflect normal use of the 
primary health services (and which you have plenty data for, complete 
and over time), typically including "headcount", ANC visits, 
Immunization, etc. Find the totals for A, B, C, and their respective 
share of Region 1's total. Then you can split Region 1 population into 
approximate district shares.

This does not represent the actual target population, but those that use 
the facilities included. At facility level, this can have some 
importance as it hides the information about preferance of facilities, 
i.e. we fail to find those facilities with low utilization compared to 
their real catchment population.

Johan



On 09.03.2012 06:31, Jason Pickering wrote:
> Yes, that is the point. Each orgunit should have a population for a
> specified time period (for instance, yearly population values).  So,
> the indicator formula would look something like this
>
> Numerator = Whatever data element
> Denominator = Population
>
>
> If you enter at level 3, you will not be able to get level 4
> indicators, but values will be able to be aggregated up the hierarchy.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Mark Spohr<mhspohr@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Except each org unit will have population.
> > How do you specify which to use in an indicator? ... will these be
> > aggregated? ... what if no low level numbers?
> >
> > Mark Spohr MD
> >
> > On Mar 8, 2012 9:10 PM, "Jason Pickering"<jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Create a new data element called "Population". Probably want to use
> > > "Average" as an aggregation operator here. Add it to a dataset like
> > > any normal data element and enter the data through the data entry
> > > screen. :)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Mark Spohr<mhspohr@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > > I am probably missing something obvious here but where do you enter
> > > > population numbers for organization units to use as denominators for
> > > > indicators?
> > > >
> > > > Mark Spohr MD
> > > >
> > > >
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