[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:19:10 +0000


On 07/14/2005 10:41:00 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the best way to correct an omission from the Census and  
> Members tables for older records when the other census rows from the  
> time period are status = L?
> 
> Specifically, I'm looking at records for Tito (sname = TIT) - she was  
> a female in Hook's group.  Her rows in the BaBase Census and Members  
> table only go through October 1999 despite the fact that she was  
> marked present on field census sheets from November 1999 until her  
> death in June 1990.  Other Hook's group census info was entered in  
> BaBase during this time window so the omission appears to be TIT  
> specific.
> 
> I know creating a census dbf file for the missing dates for TIT and  
> then doing valcen and upcen would work for more recent records, but  
> should I resort to manual corrections for these older records?

I thought the census information started 1994 or thereabouts so
I'd figure you'd treat this like any other census error since then.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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