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[Dipali Sahu <dipali.sahu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Calle.

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not using the new age type at all in any application where you want
> to do analytics or reporting on the age (in years, months, days etc) AS IT
> WAS AT THE TIME OF THE ENROLLMENT AND/OR STAGE VISIT.
>
> The "Age" data type as it is now defined/designed is probably only
> relevant for use in applications where you have stored the date of birth
> and you simply want to know the patient's age at any point in time - i.e.
> the primary usage is patient-centric and not analytics centric.
>
> In the case of Disease Surveillance, for instance, we are capturing CASES
> and not PATIENTS per se (the same patient presenting with malaria in
> January and Measles in May will be two separate cases). So for any
> post-analysis of such data, you want to know e.g. the break-down of cases
> per age group AS THOSE AGES WERE ON THE DAY OF DIAGNOSIS/PRESENTATION.
>
> So my recommendation is to instead define three additional attributes/data
> elements: Age (years), Age (months), and Age (days) - then you use three
> ASSIGN program rules to calculate and assign the relevant values. Those
> values are now permanent and locked as long as the DoB or enrollment/report
> date don't change.
>
> Best regards
> Calle
>
> On 21 May 2017 at 11:23, Dipali Sahu <dipali.sahu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am facing the same issue. I could enter age of a patient in Tracker
>> form ( in a attribute type of Age) , but not able to create any indicators
>> based on it , for example 'No. of events where Age is less than 1 year'.
>>
>> Does it work yet?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>> Deepali
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Archana Chillala <archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 2:03 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Storing value type 'Age' in numeric form
>> To: dhis2-devs <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: dhis2-users <dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jane GREIG <
>> jane.greig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Theo Krommydakis <
>> theo.krommydakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, twoca <twoca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> carolyn.tauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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>> Archana Chillala
>> Application Developer
>> Email archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Telephone +91 9100960533 <+91+9100960533>
>>
>> [image: www.thoughtworks.com] <http://www.thoughtworks.com>
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>> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Archana Chillala <
>> archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We are using DHIS version 2.26. We are exploring the new value type "
>>> *Age*" that has been introduced with this release. On the UI, when we
>>> enter a date, it calculates the age in years, months and days perfectly.
>>> But we observe that the calculated age in years is not stored in the DB.
>>> The value of an Age type data element is stored only as a date (YYYY-MM-DD)
>>> in the database. We would like to use the age in years in analytics on the
>>> visualisation apps. We have tried using program indicators for the same,
>>> but that did not work as expected.
>>>
>>> Could you please suggest how we could leverage the use of age in years,
>>> given the existing functionality.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Cheers*,
>>>
>>> Archana Chillala
>>> Application Developer
>>> Email archanac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Telephone +91 9100960533 <+91+9100960533>
>>>
>>> [image: www.thoughtworks.com] <http://www.thoughtworks.com>
>>>
>>
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