Phone call agenda -- Was: [Babase] Demography Notes Question for Jeanne, Susan, Karl, and Leah

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 10:33:06 -0500


>
>>In response to Catherine's questions:
>
>>>1.  Demography note date/group/sname consistent with a census record:
>>>In general, the objective here is to add additional notes to 
>>>BaBase that otherwise wouldn't or couldn't be entered.  Examples 
>>>include the date an infant was first observed in the field or the 
>>>first observed immigration date for a male.  Demography notes are 
>>>not given for deaths and male emigrations.
>>
>>This is not necessarily true. There are sometimes demography notes 
>>for deaths, and we hope there are always notes for disappearances 
>>and emigrations.
>
>However, when a row goes into the DEMOG table it always is like
>a census, it places the individual in a group.  I don't know if
>there are other sorts of demography notes that don't ever get
>into the database.  I believe the disussion that occured during
>the design phase for DEMOG concluded that because the observed
>individual was observed, it made sense to put them into a group.
>Even if that group was "Alone" or something like that.


I did some checking of the current DEMOG table with Leah and notes 
such as "XXX is missing from Nyayo's Group today" are frequently 
recorded. Do we want to eliminate these?

I think I need to have a discussion about this, as I am confused 
about form and function of DEMOG table at the moment and can't answer 
Catherine's questions without more info. The current documentation 
did not clear it up for me but Leah is looking at the code to see if 
there is more guidance there.

In any case we have a call coming up early next week around the 25th 
to discuss the completion of interpolation and the tackling of the 
reproductive tables. let's put this on this agenda. Can everyone do 
Monday at 3 pm east coast time? My monday is a bit full otherwise, 
but i cold do Tues.

Susan

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