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Activity Date

<activity-date></activity-date>

From the schema

The planned and actual start and completion dates of the activity. Start dates may reflect either the commencement of funding, planning or physical activity. End dates should, wherever possible, reflect the ending of physical activity. Dates should be in ISO 8601 date YYYY-MM-DD format, e.g. 2010-10-01. For the value of the @type attribute, see http://iatistandard.org/codelists/activity_date_type The text content may contain a general date text (e.g. 2011Q1) for recording less specific dates such as month, quarter, or year.

@type Free text describing the type of thing being referenced.
@iso-date An activity milestone date in ISO 8601 date format, e.g. "2010-12-01".

Compliance1 compliance test(s) for /activity-date/*

  • end-actual has earlier start-actual
  • end-planed has earlier start-planned
  • implemented activity has an actual end date
  • activity has start and end planned dates
  • activity with implementation status has start date
  • activity has a start-planned date
  • activity has a end-planned date

Standard compliance test(s) for /activity-date/@type

Activity Date

Example Usage

Example of an activity with one each of the four activity date types. 

<activity-date type="start-planned" iso-date="2009-12-31">2006-04-01</activity-date>
<activity-date type="start-actual" iso-date="2009-12-31">2007-01-01</activity-date>
<activity-date type="end-planned" iso-date="2009-12-31">2009-12-31</activity-date>
<activity-date type="end-actual" iso-date="2009-12-31">2009-12-31</activity-date>
In some cases, not all dates are known, depending on the status of the activity: 
    <activity-date type="start-actual" iso-date="2010-03-01"/>
    <activity-date type="end-planned" iso-date="2013-03-30"/>