At the moment, the field has an attribute aggregation-status: “Boolean flag indicating whether the data in the result set are suitable for aggregation.”
I propose to remove this attribute:
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It is defined at the level. There can be multiple elements in a , and some may be suitable for aggregation, while others are not. Would I then set this flag to “true” (some data in the result set is suitable for aggregation) or to “false” (not all the data is suitable for aggregation)?
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It doesn’t let me specify over which dimensions it can be aggregated. “Households reached” can usually be aggregated over regions, but not over time spans.
Hi all,
Rolf Kleef certainly has a point. The aggregation status field on the result level is not very useful, unless all indicators under that result, can be aggregated.
I concur with SJohns that we definitly need an aggregation status flag on the indicator level. When you start developing visualizations of IATI results data, you always need to know if you can aggregate or not. Otherwise the data might not make much sense.
Could we not redefine the aggregation status attribute on the results level to ‘default aggregation status’ meaning that, if not specified at the indicator level, this aggregation status will be in effect for all indicators? On the indicator level the ‘aggregation status’ attribute is added, used to specify a result indicator specific aggregation status. If this attribute is not present, the default aggregation status in in effect.