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[Johan Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I suspected that. The right breakdown for groups, DEs, categories 
etc is always tricky. I would say there is no "right" way to do it. It 
all depends on your needs for maintenance and getting totals and 
subtotals, though DHIS is now so flexible that you can do it most ways 
without much hassle.

I would probably have made a group for these two DEs ("HIV counseling 
and testing" or something), and an indicator for the grand total.

On 18.07.2013 13:34, Knut Staring wrote:
> Actually, I had not fully translated the data element, it's rather
> something like
> "Number of people counseled and tested for HIV and have received the
> result". This is common for all the breakdowns - but it could of course
> be that we should have
>
> Number of people counseled and tested for HIV and have received the
> result - CDV
>
> and
>
> Number of people counseled and tested for HIV and have received the
> result - PTME
>
> as two dataelements.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Johan Sæbø <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:johansa@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     (given that thunderbird renders your example correctly), I would say
>     that "Number of persons" is not really a data element at all. It
>     contains no info, so I would drop it, and rather have two DEs:
>
>     CDV, and
>     PTME
>
>     CDV would then have the age and gender categegory combo. The grand
>     total of CDV and PTME can be made with an indicator.
>
>     Johan
>
>
>     On 18.07.2013 13:16, Knut Staring wrote:
>
>         I have an Excel table as below. As you can see, there are thre
>         dimensions: Age, Sex and CDV/PTME. However, if I combine all of
>         these, I
>         get 8 fields instead of the 5 I need (because PTME is not broken
>         down by
>         age and sex). I can of course grey out three fields, but it does not
>         make sense to have a field such as PTME F > 14 yrs as the 5th
>         field. Is
>         there a good way to acheive this with categorycombos?
>
>         I suppose the alternative is to keep PTME separate and rather
>         create an
>         indicator that sums it with the other 4. Other suggestions?
>
>
>         *Number of persons*
>
>
>
>         *CDV :F  ≤14yr*
>
>         *CDV :M  ≤14yr*
>
>         *CDV TOTAL   ≤14yr*
>
>         *CDV :F >14 yr*
>
>         *CDV :M >14yr*
>
>         *CDV TOTAL  > 14 yr*
>
>         * PTME*
>
>         *TOTAL*
>
>
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