[Babase] REPSTATS and the unborn

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sat, 01 May 2004 16:34:22 -0400


We definitely need to check abortions (including fetal death when mom dies) 
to be sure we get birth dates).

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.

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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