[Babase] Dcause
Daphne Onderdonk
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 07 May 2004 15:19:14 -0400
> >2) There are many individuals with a status of 2 or 3 that have
> >dcauses. We haven't been using status codes other than 1 lately, but
> >they're in there for the older data. Do we want these to have dcauses,
> >or not? Most, but not all, seem to be 4s (old unknown).
>
> But, I thought that all the old codings were taken out of biograph
> after I asked about this last year? Whatever else happen right now I
> think we need to be very sure that only ONE coding scheme is
> represented in the dcause column. Has this not happened? I thought it
> had.
Sorry for the confusion about this, Susan. I was talking about the list of OLD
dcauses (for the individuals with non-0 status and statdates before 1 Jul 01).
These were the old dcauses BEFORE I changed them to 0. Currently in Biograph,
everyone with a non-0 status and a statdate before 1 Jul 01 has a dcause of 0.
But I kept the old information to help with the assigning of the new dcauses,
which I have sent to Steph. So what I really meant was, what should Steph do
with these individuals with a status of 2 or 3 who were previously assigned
dcauses? Do we want them to have dcauses or not?
I have sent Steph this list of individuals with old dcauses, the old dcause
support table, the definitions of the new dcauses, and the files with the
dcauses that Jeanne and Jessica assigned.
Daphne