[Babase] Males with Matgrp 9, not in grp 9 at birth

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Sat Dec 26 22:41:20 EST 2009


On 12/26/2009 09:25:38 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> >
> > Maybe what's left are the males that really were in the
> > study groups when real censuses started?
> 
> The condition that Lacey was trying to fix was one in which the male  
> had matgrp = 9 but was in study group since his _birth_. That  
> condition isn't logically possible. The males you list below don't  
> have that condition (at least not all of them do, I did not check 
> them
>  
> all).
> 
> For instance, one of the males you pulled out below, DAR, is in 
> matgrp
>  
> 9 from birth until he immigrates into Alto's. This is correct now. In 
> 
> other words, Lacey's fix worked on this male. I'm not sure what the  
> query you did was but maybe if Lacey just double checks to confirm 
> she
>  
> has corrected it, then you and she can take it from there.

You guys seem to have a grip on it.  The B (and probably other)
"old census codes" no longer consistently reflect the data
source from which they were derived, because there's been
some of this intermediate cleanup done.  I don't know that
it matters so long as you carry through on the cleanup.
It does make the descriptions in the documentation a bit
confusing (along with comparison with the old SPSS data,
or whatever it was) but nobody probably cares.

Karl <kop at meme.com>
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