[Babase] Procedures for Incomplete Censuses

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:47:36 +0000


On 08/01/2005 01:07:49 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As you can see I am slowly going through old emails and trying to  
> catch up but things are still a bit sketchy in that dept so forgive  
> if I respond to outdated issues that don't need response. Also please  
> do send me again anything that I need to give input on but haven't  
> yet.

I'm looking for feedback on interpolation/the interpolation
documentation and related docs but that might be
a phone conversation.


> I don't know what the practice used to be but it does seem to me that  
> this information should be put in as confirmed presence. In other  
> words I agree with you that lack of census info in babase for 5 may  
> 99 is a mistake. Have you checked more than this one incomplete  
> census? is this how they are generally treated?

I think that census "present" should be entered for incomplete
censues but not census "absent", from a computer perspective
anyhow.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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