Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
Metadata is a description of data (information about information). The primary role of metadata is to facilitate appropriate interpretation of statistics by both users and producers of data in the NSS and information sharing. The national Metadata dictionary has been revised to include the missing indicators from the 16 MDAs in the first edition and new indicators from the five additional MDAs under the PNSD to fully guide stakeholders on the definitions, data sources, disaggregation, compilation practices, computation methods, accessibility and availability and accounting conventions for key indicators in the NSS.