“Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything.”

Yes I am still dissecting my data to death… But hey, persistence is key in this situation, right?

The technique of work smart, not hard is also good to have in the tool box as there are lots of numbers to get through along with another set of data coming my way! So safe to say I won’t have time to do all that without the help of some coding or a loop hole.

It was daunting to face almost 200 districts in 18 provinces of Vietnam. I discovered that the districts within each province are relatively uniform in their data, *loop hole*. Once I got that it was smooth sailing for me to get to know the data set much better.

(Of course it was smooth sailing after I figured out that one of my inputs was majorly wrong…)

But, EUREKA! The EX-ACT and SECTOR finally agree (for now)!

Now all that’s left to do with this data is to code the inputs; so I will not have to manually do each estimation over and over again. And wash rinse repeat with the next data set. Not much at all… 😅