The procedure Standards ranks the cases (i.e. Regions) according to the values of the selected indicator. Cases are sorted in descending order for desirable, positive features (meaning high values are good) and ascending order for undesirable, negative features (meaning high values are bad), in order to show the most desirable case at the top of the graph. Color-coding is used to emphasize the groups of cases determined by the standard values. When you check your case's compliance with existing or proposed standards, the cases are grouped and displayed following a color code to highlight the groups. As such, green means “good”, yellow means “neutral” and red means “bad”, very much like traffic lights meaning go/wait/no go. MapDecision uses up to five groups for displaying color-coded output, with two shades of green and two shades of red being used. Selected regions on a map are hatched. Those regions for which there is no data in the database are colored in gray.

Example: Literacy rate (%)

        In this example, the Standards procedure is applied to the indicator Literacy rate. The indicator is considered positive, meaning the higher the values, the more desirable the situation is. 

The break values were set at 90% and 95%, resulting three color-coded groups.

Benchmarks LITERACY :

	>= 95
	90 - 95
	< 90

 

NCR		99.00
Central Luzon		97.60
Southern Tagalog		95.80
Bicol		95.20
Ilocos		95.20
Caraga		93.20
Northern Mindanao		93.20
Western Visayas		93.00
Cagayan Valley		91.70
Southern Mindanao		91.00
Central Visayas		90.50
Eastern Visayas		89.80
Western Mindanao		87.70
Central Mindanao		87.20
CAR		87.00
ARMM		71.50

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