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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

dHi,

to me it sounds like storing monthly (or quarterly) population data in the
system would be the only short/medium-term solution. It will work fine as
long as data element aggregation operator is set to average.

This to me sounds like an ideal candidate for an
app<http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch29.html>- one
that takes i) the org unit level for the yearly population data and
ii) the growth rate as input, then applies a linear data addition along the
12 months to make more realistic population data, writes that monthly data
back to the system and removes the yearly data after verification.

Or less sexy, a bash and curl script against the web api.

Lars





On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> We face exactly the same issue,except it is even more problematic because
> we are analyzing primarily weekly data. Our solution has been exactly as
> you have written, to create and import the facility catchment population
> externally and import. It is a bit of effort but only needs to be done
> once. A better solution would be preferable though.
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile
> On Apr 3, 2014 12:43 PM, "Wilson,Randy" <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> We have a couple of programs that look at their population coverage
>> indicators each month (e.g. ANC 1 coverage rate), yet we only update
>> populations once a year (entering the data or adding projected figures in
>> January).
>>
>>
>>
>> The problem is when you look at coverage monthly you always see a dip in
>> January (see chart below).  Is there an established way to spread the
>> population by period?  I've got the aggregation operator for the Population
>> data element set to "Average" - but presumably that would only have an
>> impact on yearly data if we were analyzing more than 1 year.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can smooth  this outside of DHIS-2 by dividing the annual population
>> growth rate by 12 and applying a monthly increase to the January population
>> before calculating coverage.  What are the other options?
>>
>>
>>
>> We could enter monthly population projections into the DHIS-2 - but seems
>> like a lot of extra effort and at the facility level they only re-estimate
>> population once a year.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Randy Wilson*
>>
>>
>>
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