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["Wilson,Randy" <rwilson@xxxxxxx>]

In Rwanda, we have tried to keep things simple by entering only total population figures for province, district, sector and health facility levels for each year.

We have then created indicators for each of the major target population groups by using census breakdowns and multiplying the total population by the following factors (we're still waiting for results of 2012 census to update some of these):

Children 0 - 11 months

4.10%

Children 1 - 4 years

12.10%

Children 5 - 14 years

27.50%

Children < 15 years

43.70%

Population >= 15 years

56.30%

Children under 5 years

16.20%

Expected Pregnancies

4.10%

Women of reproductive age

23.60%

If your administrative units are very diverse this approach might not work, but it certainly simplifies analysis and people are less inclined to use smaller denominators to make their performance look better.

Randy

From: dhis2-users-bounces+rwilson=msh.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+rwilson=msh.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rodolfo Melia
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:11 PM
To: Paulo Grácio
Cc: dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Population Definition

So far (I'm only doing tests, no yet in production), I have imported population data using a dataset with annual data collection, populating 2012, 13 and 14 with the same data, so I can do indicator calculations on those years.

For your case, I will create 3 data elements, each one associated to a category combination for Age, Gender and Area.

Rodolfo
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Paulo Grácio <pgracio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:pgracio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello,

I'm trying to figure out the best way to define population in a way that it can be used to calculate indicators. We have population values, lowest level is District, aggregated by age(0-5; 5-20;20-60;60+), gender(male, female) and area(rural, urban).

Based on you experience what do you consider to be the best approach for this?

Kind regards,
Paulo Grácio


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