[Babase] REPSTATS and the unborn
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sat, 1 May 2004 17:17:11 -0400
>We definitely need to check abortions (including fetal death when
>mom dies) to be sure we get birth dates).
You mean, make sure that all abortions do indeed have birthdates in
biograph? Shall we have Steph check on that? (She is working on
repstats now at the moment anyway and this is a naturally connected
thing)
>
>I don't recall why we made this decision, but we should consider all
>the implications now. This decision does mean that repstat will
>have the wrong stat for many females for approximately the most
>recent 6mos of updates. This isn't good, so I'm inclined to change
>this unless there's a good reason not to.
You mean the decision not to give a p until there is a birth? I
wasn't in on the decision but I do wonder if it has to do with the
difficult of having the machine figure it out -- if it is easy to
change, I am in agreement that we should assign a p as soon
aspossible after the relevant d-date. How has it typically been
handled for cycles and pregs?
S
>
>jeanne
>
>At 01:16 PM 5/1/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Looking over the program that populates REPSTATS
>>I notice that when there's a pregnancy you don't get
>>P rows in repstats until the offspring has a birthdate.
>>I belive this was intentional, especially as there
>>is a 'days remaining' in state column which couldn't
>>be filled out until the length of the state is known,
>>but there are implications. I figured I'd write as
>>we're starting to work with this data.
>>
>>All abortions must have rows in BIOGRAPH with a Birth date.
>>
>>The as-yet-unborn don't show in REPSTATS.
>>
>>Karl <kop@meme.com>
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>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
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