[Babase] Correcting PIDs for Missed Pregnancy

Jeanne Altmann babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 01 Aug 2005 20:45:14 -0400


Catherine, we need to make sure that the Babase management manual clarifies 
that PID must not be used to determine parity number; only Parity can be 
used for that purpose,  And Susan, we need to make sure that all data 
managers and users keep referring back to the manual----the better the 
training and transfer it seems, the less the use of the written 
material!  not always, but often,

Catherine and I were just talking about this with the issue of twins today.

jeanne

At 02:09 PM 8/1/2005, you wrote:
>Catherine, the procedure you describe below looks right to me.
>
>Susan
>
>>
>>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.
>
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