[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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