Calculations across different time periods in DHIS2

Is there an out-of-the-box way in DHIS2 to define indicators or to perform calculations that compare data elements between different time periods, such as calculating a % change between one month and the next? The only way we have found to do this at the moment is to export the data and do the calculations outside DHIS2.

Thanks,

Hazim

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Hazim Timimi
Data Manager, Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland