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4. Clarity on same data point available at multiple  Number of Eligible elderly receiving respective

locations pensions should be less than or equal to Total
A standard example is the number of Households. This number of eligible elderly destitute

one data point is available at multiple locations:
 Number of women headed households covered
1. Anganwadis-at each Anganwadi covering its under PDS system should be less than or equal to
service area. Number of households covered under PDS

2. ASHA worker- covering the service area.  Number of households with FHTC or Toilets cannot

3. JJM portal be more than the number of households

4. SBM Portal  GP spending cannot be in single digit

5. MGNREGA Portal  OSR assets in GP cannot be zero

6. Grama Panchayat own registers Other than it being built into the system, it needs to be

7. School registers understood as to what these logics are and mean. Some
missed out in logic were:
When data of Households as denominator was collected,
multiple figures came in. Which one the data collection  Logics in system to make sure Denominator is not

team is to take & which should be treated as the correct smaller than numerator.
one & used by all. This standardisation is required for not  If numerator value is positive, denominator cannot
only Households, but all such data points. For the
be Zero.
calculations, the data of the GP was taken as the standard,
 In case of ratio calculations, the overall ratio can be
which is available also in the GP Profile in eGramSwaraj.
(Data of Households of sub-layers, such as women greater than 100.
headed, AAY and PHH etc were collected by GP where it The data error being made would then perhaps not
was not available from any specific data source ). happen.

5. Data logic 6. Values that cannot be entered

Some logic checks that were applied Alpha where it is numeric, percentage, decimal values,
calculated figures, are examples of those which the
 Number of women headed households cannot be
system would not accept and this too needs to be
greater than Total households in a GP
explained.
 Number of children under 5 years of age and
7. Data source
Number of children in age group 0-59 months are
This is very important for the collection of data to be swift
same, but values in differ significantly
and correct. It is worth mentioning that in the process, the
 Area under tree cover should be less than Total portal data is also noted for the relevant data field. e.g.:

geographical area and cannot be 0 Transition Rates. This is from the UDISE+ portal and the

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