Indicators are the best way to collect standardized data in mWater and Solstice.
Indicators allow you to:
1) Collect standardized data across surveys and contexts
2) Automatically calculate results and turn data into insight
It is easy to bring indicators into any of your surveys. Then access indicators as data sources for your dashboards. You can use the Indicator Library to explore the currently available indicators. You can discover indicators created by experts. Many are grouped by SDG.
You can see the definitions of the indicators, related documentation, and the properties that those indicators contain. Then you can bring these indicators into your own surveys. This means that all the related questions will be added to your surveys.
Definitions: Written section on what the indicator is for and what it is intending to track.
References: Links to relevant expert documentation.
Properties: Data fields that are collected or calculated in the indicator. For example: Date, water point site, water source type, E. coli count, water service level (calculated).
Calculations: Displaying the exact logic with which some properties are calculated from others
Question set(s): Which questions are needed to input data into indicator properties. There can be many question sets to choose from for different contexts, but they all input data into the same indicator
Adding indicators
There are two ways to bring indicators into your surveys
1) Go to the indicator library, open the indicator, and click the button to start a whole new survey based on that indicator.
2) Go to an existing survey and find the indicator from the indicator library pane of the survey, then add it to the survey.
Example indicator
Visualizing indicator data
Indicators are a data source you can select when you are building dashboards, maps, consoles, or datagrids. So you can for example display indicator achievement over time, aggregate it by district, region, or country, or by school, healthcare facility, community.
This is also a powerful way to display your impact and results to a wider audience, whilst keeping the survey data private to your organization.
Often when you want to visualize an indicator, pick it and then use the relevant SITE as the data source, then navigate to the related indicator. Why? It makes it easy to pick the latest result for any given site.
If there is no site, pick the raw indicator as the data source.
