[Babase] adult female ranks in 1970's - TO DO LIST (not urgent)

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Sat May 12 18:23:14 EDT 2007


>> 3. The ranks data for Hook's in the 1970's is more spotty. Jeanne  
>> and I decided that probably we will NOT try to do month-by-month  
>> rankings for females in Hook's prior to January 1981 because the  
>> data are too sparse. However, we think that we CAN extract from  
>> these data birth and/or conception ranks for most or all of the  
>> PIDs that occurred in these years. We thought that it would be  
>> good to make a new babase table that contains only birth or  
>> conception ranks (or both) for the affected kids. We should talk  
>> to Karl about the design issues here.
>
> I think all you need is a new row (or 2) in the RNKTYPES table.
> Read the docs to be sure and then go ahead and add one.
>

This is a great idea, thanks. We will talk and think about this.

Susan




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