Indicators Historical Chart Enhancements

From Scott:

Hi Brian and Ghislain

I was looking for the first time in a very long while at the SIEMIS online and came across the charting functionality. The idea of including charts is a good one however I’ve got some reservations about how the data is being displayed here. A few observations – I’m assuming Population is referring to School Age Population? If so this could be specified with ages, NER and GER show some a movement from 93 to 88.5 which is probably likely due to population denominator impacts on the calculation more than anything else – the way the graph is rendered with the axis incrementing by 0.5% is quite misleading and unnecessarily confusing. It’s a bad use of a graph and needs to be redeveloped. Same goes for GER. Also we shouldn’t express these as decimals – this is not the notation that the UIS and other international bodies use. Again more confusion unnecessarily.

With the graph of Certified Teachers I’m assuming that in 2006 no data was captured. Is it possible to consider using the same data from 2005 here as we do with enrolments? With the exception of 2006 and 2014 the data in time series looks good. Also could we start at the intersection with the X and Y axis at Zero rather than how it is looking currently?

I know that you have all been working on other tasks and this is not something that is perhaps in the to do list but I think it would serve us well to clean this up a bit.

Cheers

Scott

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