[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:55:49 -0400
Karl,
I thought I followed you on your first reply to this, but the second
message (below) confused me. Am I good to go with using an origin of
"N" for TIT's missing census rows or should I check with Jeanne and Susan?
Catherine
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> This seems like a perfect use for "N". The question
> is whether those "old" codes are fixed in stone as
> a record of the original conversion or whether they're
> to be updated and corrected. I'd tend to leave them
> alone and just go back and input the original census
> data if you're looking to make general improvments.
>
> On 08/03/2005 07:57:44 PM, Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>
>> sounds good,
>> Catherine will be away until Monday, will return Monday and do it then,
>> jeanne
>>
>> At 06:21 PM 8/3/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/03/2005 03:44:57 PM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>>>
>>>> Karl,
>>>> I showed Jeanne the records for TIT today - we definitely do want to
>>>> add her census info from November 1989 through her death in June 1990.
>>>> I should just do this manually? Make the origin equal to "L" and
>>>> interp equal to "0" for each calendar day in the missing interval?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm thinking that you should make the origin "N" for
>>> manual-already-analyzed and be sure to make a note somewhere
>>> as to why the rows are in there. The "somewhere" could be
>>> in DEMOG for one of the endpoint days. This is an item for
>>> the procedure manual I'd think. (We can always take both
>>> the rows and the note in the manual out if/when we go
>>> back and enter the real census data.)
>>>
>>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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Catherine Markham
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