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Re: "future" period as denominator data

 

Hi Johan,

make sure you set the aggregation operator of the population data element
to average.

Lars
On Sep 11, 2014 7:23 AM, "Johan Ivar Sæbø" <johansa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Any comments on this? Is it a bug, or have I done something wrong in the
> definitions?
>
> This is version: 2.16
> Build date: 2014-09-07 13:11
>
> To clarify: We have a population-based indicator that shows no value for
> any month in 2014 (we don't have population data for 2013). We have
> projected population data for 2014, but these are apparently only used when
> we tick off "This year" in pivot or visualizer.
>
> Johan
>
> On 10.09.2014 10:15, Johan Ivar Sæbø wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we have some population-based indicators, and have population-data for
>> 2014 in the database. However, when we look at indicators for any month
>> in 2014, it appears that the denominator is picked from the last
>> finished period, i.e. 2013. When we look at 2014 as total by selecting
>> "this year" in pivot table, the indicator is calculated correctly using
>> 2014 population data.
>>
>> A point of allowing future data to be entered should be to use this
>> year's projected population data in indicators. Is there some setting
>> somewhere I have missed to allow this?
>>
>> An example indicator is measles coverage:
>> Numerator: measles vaccination given (monthly)
>> Denominator: population <1 (yearly)
>> Percentage, annualized
>>
>> Regards,
>> Johan
>>
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