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[Ola Hodne Titlestad <olati@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

If I understand you correctly you have a data element called "Population"
and a categorycombination with Age+Sex linked to this data element?

If so, you should make sure that the total of the category option
combinations (All ages and sex combinations) add up to the total population.

The total for the data element is used in many places in DHIS 2 and if this
total is not the correct total population you might confuse the users and
also make indicator and report creation more complicated than it has to be.

Typically the age groups for population is overlapping and not complete
sets (e.g. <1, <5, female 15-49 (WRA), total), that is why I ask.

If you have a complete set of disaggregated population data then categories
will work fine.
If not, I would use separate data elements for the different population
groups.

Ola
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On 1 May 2012 14:20, Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Hiatt, Mr Tom (WPRO) <hiattt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> ** ** ** **
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>> Ah yes, of course. Thanks!****
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>> ** **
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>> For me, I have individual codes for these data elements (population by
>> age and sex), but previously I had them stored as individual variables
>> rather than dimensions of the population variable. This time around I’m
>> trying to store them in the “right” way as dimensions, which seems more
>> logical. (I hope I don’t get bit down the road for this…) For my use so
>> far, this is a one-off data import exercise, but I could imagine scenarios
>> where one would like to import more frequently from a database that stores
>> them as individual variables as mine did. However, seeing as how these data
>> would probably come from different systems that use different coding
>> schemes, perhaps a mapping exercise would be necessary anyway. I’ll let you
>> know if I run into that hurdle.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Tom****
>>
>> **
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> Great. Let us know how it goes.
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