Most of the documentation for the Open SDG platform is applicable for this implementation. This document will detail the exceptions to this: places where this implementation differs from out-of-the-box Open SDG.

The Open SDG docs on data column headings do not apply to this implementation. Here are the guidelines for column headings in CSV data:

• All column headings should be lowercase and contain only letters, numbers, and/or underscores (as well as the pipe - | - as described below). Spaces or any other special characters are not allowed. For example:

  Good	Bad
  my_total	My total
  female_male	Female/Male

• The first column heading should be year.

• The main column (aka, the "headline") should be identical to what is in the metadata field "indicator_variable". For example, if the data column headings are:

  year,national_average

  Then the metadata for the indicator should include this line:

  indicator_variable: national_average

• Columns that represent some category of disaggregation should follow the pattern: category:value. Here is an example column heading row:

  year,total,sex:male,sex:female

• Columns that represent multiple categories of disaggregation should follow the pattern: category1:value|category2:value. Here is an example:

  year,total,sex:female|age:child,sex:female|age:adult