This dialog box allows you to select the Questionnaire ID items to be used for area processing.
Area Structure Section
Codes for these items are used to 'tally' in the specific areas. Area items can come from the questionnaire ID items or items on singly occurring records. Available single record names will be available in the 'Include Items from Record' menu. If selected those items will be added to the list under 'Questionnaire Items'.
Note: The number of the Area IDs items determine the number of [Levels] needed in the Area Name File.
Select one or more Questionnaire IDs from the left box (to select multiple items, hold down the Ctrl key when you make your selections).
Click the 'Add' button to copy your choices to the Area IDs list.
To remove an item from the Area IDs list, select it and click the 'Remove' button.
To re-order items in the list, select one and click the 'Move Up'/'Move Down' button as appropriate.
Tabulation Section
In future versions, users will be able to decide if areas without any counts [no tallies] are displayed in the table or not.
Show area in table even if no counts are tallied [always in version 5.0].
Consolidation Section
Generally, only tables at the lowest level are created when the data file is processed. After these are completed these lowest levels are combined and recombined to create the higher level tables.
The two options here are Standard or Custom.
'Standard' follows the usual fashion of aggregation, i.e., adding to get total. Each lower level is combined to create the next highest level.
As an example from above, the original tables [created from the data file] would be an urban table for each district in each province and a rural table for each district in each province.
Standard Consolidation would:
Add the appropriate urban and rural tables to create the province-district table.
Add the appropriate district tables to create the province table.
Add all province tables to create the 'country' table.
This procedure produces four levels of tables: Urban/Rural, District, Province, and Country (given in minor to major order).
The Lowest Level allows users to select the most minor level to be produced. Counts at this level and higher will appear in the tabulation but any lower level counts will be discarded.
Custom option allows some freedom in defining the aggregation or consolidation scheme. See Custom Consolidation for more information.
See also: Area Processing, Create an Area Names File