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open-sdg / sdg-build

Python package to convert SDG-related data and metadata between formats
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Use TIME_PERIOD instead of TIME_DETAIL in SDMX output #250

Closed brockfanning closed 3 years ago

brockfanning commented 3 years ago

When I wrote the SDMX output code I was not clear on the difference between TIME_PERIOD and TIME_DETAIL - now I realize that TIME_PERIOD was more appropriate.

LucyGwilliamAdmin commented 3 years ago

@brockfanning I'm just trying to understand the difference between TIME_PERIOD and TIME_DETAIL here: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/files/SDG-DSD-Guidelines.pdf

It looks like TIME_PERIOD is high level, whilst TIME_DETAIL is lower level - this is the example provided: for period ‘2001-2003’ TIME_PERIOD would be 2002 but the actual dates --2001-2003-- would be expressed here

So definitely think TIME_PERIOD should be used here, but how does TIME_DETAIL come into it - would a country just add another column to the input called TIME_DETAIL?

brockfanning commented 3 years ago

@LucyGwilliamAdmin My understanding is that TIME_DETAIL is optional, and intended for cases where the data may be about a range of years. TIME_PERIOD is required to be a single year, but TIME_DETAIL can be any free text. So if a data set is about 2015-2020, then the TIME_PERIOD could be set to 2015 (or 2020) and the TIME_DETAIL could be "2015-2020".