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# Indirect Activities

How PEARS Indirect Activity data maps to the Indirect Education Channels section in N-PEARS.

Indirect Activities in PEARS map to the **Indirect Education Channels** section of **Project and Activity Results** in N-PEARS. Data is aggregated by project.

## Inclusion Criteria

In addition to the [global criteria](/analyze/n-pears-export.md), the following rules apply:

* Only activities with an assigned **project** in General Information are included.
* Data is aggregated across all qualifying activities within each project.

## Field Mapping

### Project-Level Fields

| PEARS Field | N-PEARS Field                                                                                                                      | Calculation                                                             |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Project     | Were any indirect education channels used to support this project that were not part of a comprehensive social marketing campaign? | "Yes" if any qualifying activity exists for the project; otherwise "No" |

### Languages

| PEARS Field                           | N-PEARS Field                                     | Calculation                                                                                                                                                                   |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Language(s) used in this activity     | In what languages was indirect education offered? | All languages used across qualifying activities are checked                                                                                                                   |
| Please specify additional language(s) | Other Languages                                   | Each unique "other language" in the project is listed in a single comma-separated value; languages that map to N-PEARS "Other" also contribute their PEARS name to this value |

### Intervention Channels

| PEARS Field          | N-PEARS Field | Calculation                                                |
| -------------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| Intervention Channel | Channels      | All channels used across qualifying activities are checked |

#### Channel Option Mapping

PEARS intervention channels are mapped to N-PEARS indirect education channels as follows:

| PEARS Channel                                                                                               | N-PEARS Channel                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Articles                                                                                                    | Articles                                |
| Billboards, bus/van wraps, or other signage                                                                 | Billboards, transit advertising         |
| Calendars                                                                                                   | Hardcopy materials                      |
| Community outreach - in which participated (e.g. tabling, open-houses, fairs, or other events)              | Other (specify)                         |
| Community outreach - only sponsored (e.g. tabling, open-houses, fairs, or other events)                     | Other (specify)                         |
| Electronic materials (e.g. email and electronic newsletters or mailings / text messaging)                   | Electronic materials                    |
| Hardcopy materials (e.g., calendars, fact sheets, flyers, pamphlets, recipe cards, newsletter for mailings) | Hardcopy materials                      |
| Site-level assets (e.g., posters, banners, a-frames, displays)                                              | Site-level assets                       |
| Nutrition education reinforcement items                                                                     | Nutrition education reinforcement items |
| Point-of-sale or distribution signage                                                                       | Site-level assets                       |
| Radio public service announcement                                                                           | Traditional media advertisement         |
| Social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest)                                                       | Social media                            |
| TV public service announcements                                                                             | Traditional media advertisement         |
| Videos (includes CD, DVD, USB, etc.)                                                                        | CD or DVD                               |
| Videos (includes YouTube)                                                                                   | YouTube channel                         |
| Websites                                                                                                    | Websites                                |
| Television interview                                                                                        | Other (specify)                         |
| Radio interview                                                                                             | Other (specify)                         |
| Fact sheet                                                                                                  | Hardcopy materials                      |
| Software application                                                                                        | Other (specify)                         |
| Blog                                                                                                        | Websites                                |
| Podcast                                                                                                     | Other (specify)                         |
| Text messaging                                                                                              | Electronic materials                    |
| Paid radio advertisement                                                                                    | Traditional media advertisement         |
| Paid TV advertisement                                                                                       | Traditional media advertisement         |
| Other, please specify                                                                                       | Other (specify)                         |

{% hint style="info" %}
**TIP:** For channels that map to "Other (specify)", the specified value is the text entered in **Please specify other intervention channel** when the channel is **Other, please specify**; for every other channel in that group, it is the PEARS channel name.
{% endhint %}