3. TABULAR REPORTS, GRAPHS, AND MICF INQUIRIES › 3.1 Tabular Reports › 3.1.2 Tabular Report Formats
3.1.2 Tabular Report Formats
The tabular reports present the values of key data elements
as formatted rectangular arrays of numbers.
There are three major areas on each tabular report:
o Report Heading
o Data Element Descriptions
o Data Area
The relative positions of each of these areas is shown in the
following diagram.
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| R E P O R T H E A D I N G |
| |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| || |
| sub-heading || sub-heading |
| || |
+-----------------++----------------------------------------+
| D || |
| E || |
| E S || |
| L C || |
| D E R || |
| A M I || D A T A A R E A |
| T E P || |
| A N T || |
| T I || |
| O || |
| N || |
| S || |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Figure 3-1. Tabular Report Format
Each of the tabular reports can be produced in one of two
formats: profile or trend. Both formats of a given report
present the same data elements, in the same relative
positions on the page, but for different time-period
summaries of the data.
