To maintain consistency, accuracy, and global interoperability, the HEA Database adheres to international standards for metadata coding, where possible..
Below are the specific metadata types and the standards applied to each type of reference data:
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Typically the Seasons for a Country are organized such that they cover a 12 month period and have an alias for Season 1 or Season that can be used to find the season that corresponds to that set of livelihood activities from the Baseline Storage Sheets (BSS).
At the moment, our ability to recognize Season 1 and Season 2 using aliases depends on there only being one set of Seasons for a Country. In places where this is not true, like Ethiopia and Nigeria, the BSS will need to be corrected (in bulk) in order to recognize the correct season. Alternatively, we can use a single global Season 1 and Season 2 which will be less effort but removes the opportunity to match the Season 1 and Season 2 income and consumption to actual dates in the reference year.
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