Creating Profile Indicators

When to use

A profile indicator should be used when you want to display an indicator to the user. A profile indicator is presented as a bar chart in the rich data view and is also available under the data mapper.

If your indicator only has one subindicator - i.e. only one bar in the barchart, consider using a Profile Key Metric instead.

New Profile Indicators

1. To create new profile indicators, log into the backend admin section with your admin account and click Add next to Profile indicators.

2. Select the profile to associate this indicator with (there might only be a single one).

3. Select the variable on which this is based, from the dropdown list.

4. For the content type dropdown, if the indicator is based on qualitative data select HTML, otherwise leave it as Indicator for a chart type indicator.

5. Provide a meaningful name for this profile indicator in the label field - this is what users will see

6. Select the category and sub-category this indicator will be housed under (shown in both the Data Mapper and the Rich Data view).

7. Add a textual description of the indicator - this will be shown in the Rich Data view just below the relevant graph.

8. Select the choropleth method to be used - either sibling or sub-indicator. This determines what to use as the denominator when rendering the choropleth. Sibling level would be the sum of the same geography types (e.g. when viewing number of households in WC this would compare WC to the sum of all provinces). Sub-indicator method would tally up the values for the children of the current geography level (e.g. households in WC would then tally up households for all districts in WC)

9. Sub-indicators will be shown to you once you had initially saved. Sub-indicators can be reordered by dragging and dropping them.

10. Confirm the indicator is now visible on the frontend by doing a hard refresh (ctrl-shift-r)

Display configuration

Additional configuration is possible, such as how numbers are formatted. Documentation can be found in the wazimap techncial documentation.