[Babase] Correcting PIDs for Missed Pregnancy

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 03:22:50 +0000


On 07/14/2005 11:15:07 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:

> 
> A note from Daphne indicates that Sister had an abortion in December  
> 1988 and that this abortion was never entered into the BaBase  
> Biograph or Pregs tables.  SIS's data in the Cycles table looks  
> correct - the problem is that it is not linked with a pregnancy.   
> Looking back at the sexskin datasheets, she conceived on 28 June 1988  
> (cid = 1688).  The abortion was 18 December 1988.  Her resume cycle  
> was cid = 1689.
> 
> If you agree that this abortion should be added reviewing the field  
> notes, here's how I'd go about correcting BaBase:
> 
> I would create a new row in Biograph for the abortion (same procedure  
> as on this as I follow during demography update with statdate =  
> birthdate, name field left blank, etc.).  SIS had pregnancies both  
> before and after this abortion - this abortion will be inserted  
> between SIS6 and SIS7. Before SIS died in 1990, she had a total of 8  
> pregnancies (not including this one).  PID = SIS9 is the next pid in  
> series.  I would assign that PID to this birth, but reorder the  
> parity numbers such that the parity for SIS6 is 6, SIS9 is 7, SIS7 is  
> 8, and SIS8 is 9.  I think this is consistent with the protocols that  
> Daphne explained last fall (never change a PID but is ok to change  
> the parity).  These PID changes would be made in both the Biograph  
> and the Pregs tables.  Finally, I would also add a row to the Pregs  
> table for PID = SIS9 with the conceive and resume cycles entered in.

Looks right to me.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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