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[Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

Please see the forwarded mail if you can help Seid. He is asking how to
provinces can apply conversion factors on national level data.

Seid can provide more details if necessary.

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Thank you,
Abyot.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Seid Hussein <seid.hisp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I think you are better positioned to comment on this on what approach we
> should use. In the file attached, you can see that there are 49 different
> conversion factors to come up with approximations of different data
> elements like expected pregnancies and infant population.
>
> If these factors were the same for all regions, we could have added them
> as constants and used them to define the denominators for the indicators.
> However, as you can see each region has different conversion factors and
> there's a big difference among them which makes defining indicators very
> difficult.
>
> I see two options here:
>
>
>    - Capturing the population and calculating each data elements for each
>    facility by multiplying it with its respective region's factor (hence
>    coming up with at least 49 data elements)
>    - Defining different indicators for different regions using different
>    constants as conversion factors (which I think may complicate things)
>
> In my view the first option is the best option for us because once we
> capture the total population, it is easier to generate data for the other
> data elements using these conversion factors. Of course, as I stated in my
> mail yesterday, there are two sets of population data used in the structure
> (MoH uses the official data from Central Statistical Authority
> dis-aggregated by Wereda while the regions use data collected from the
> ground. The data the regions use may be the most accurate but we have to
> accomodate both options I think because the two parties use their own
> population data to come up with the population figures, effectively having
> two different population data (administrative population and facility
> catchment population)
>
> If we are using two sets of population data, we may have to define the
> same for all the 49 other data elements with the factors as well.
>
> Would you please deliberate over it and suggest? Once we have a concrete
> plan, we can discuss with M&E people here on how to proceed.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Seid,
>