Step 6: A pool change calculates a year-by-year decrease or increase in the number of health workers in the cadre. Decreases may be caused by attrition due to retirement, illness, death, out migration or other reasons. Increases may come from training program graduates, immigration or recruitment of health workers. You can enter as many pool changes as you like depending on the data that you have available. Each one will be considered in projecting the total workforce supply. It is best to enter each intake and attrition change separately, as they can be toggled on and off when modeling the projected health workforce. This will help you more easily see the effects of each change on the workforce supply.

Once you have entered data for all cadres in the health workforce, you are ready to generate the projection model.