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Re: Data is not annually taken

 

Hi Knut,

Just replied to that.
Thank you very much!


Best regards,
Karina

On 19 May 2016 at 19:34, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Karina,
>
> If you don't care about the day, just pick one (perhaps a fixed one).
>
> Lars just replied to the other question, and also recommends using events
> for your use case.
>
> Regards,
> Knut
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Karina Dian Lestari <
> karinadnlstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Knut,
>>
>> thank you for replying.
>> I haven't try to use events. I already see in demo, it seems useful. But
>> I am not sure how to create events for my data since I do not record the
>> date, only month and year. If this is the case, can I still use events?
>>
>> Another issue, I asked this in different subject but no one reply to it.
>> What is the best way to count data value? I have several data elements
>> which the value need to be counted. I tried several things but none of them
>> works.
>>
>> Thank you for your kind help.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Karina.
>>
>> On 19 May 2016 at 15:12, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Karina,
>>>
>>> There is no problem in adding additional locations/OrgUnits later. Also,
>>> if no data is entered for a month, nothing will be entered in the database,
>>> so this is also fine.
>>>
>>> Since you are doing a survey, another option (but not sure it would be
>>> any better in your case) could be to use events, which would have a date of
>>> recording.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Knut
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Karina Dian Lestari <
>>> karinadnlstr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please help, I need your suggestions. I have this data called mass
>>>> blood survey. The problem with this data set are location of the survey is
>>>> often changing and the period is not really annually. For example: on
>>>> January 2010 survey held in B location. On February 2010, there was another
>>>> survey but it is in C location. Another time, survey held in D location.
>>>> Next time the survey held, it could be in a totally different location.
>>>>
>>>> My plan is to make survey location as organisation unit and period of
>>>> data set is monthly. My concern are:
>>>>
>>>>    - is it okay if in the future I keep adding new organisation unit
>>>>    (in this case location)?
>>>>    - because the location is not always surveyed every month it will
>>>>    cause blank form in most of the months as I will input the data only on the
>>>>    month they are being surveyed. will this cause any problem in the future?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you think? I am open to any suggestions.
>>>> Thank you very much.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Karina
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Knut Staring
>>> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
>>> Norway: +4791880522
>>> Skype: knutstar
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>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Knut Staring
> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
> Norway: +4791880522
> Skype: knutstar
> http://dhis2.org
>

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