[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:16:29 -0400
Great, Karl - thanks for the clarification.
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 08/08/2005 07:55:49 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> It's whether to go back and fiddle with the L's and R's and S's and
> so forth or just do a new analysis with N. I'm thinking N,
> so the original codes could be "figured out" just by looking at them.
> They are after all supposed to represent something consistent
> and I'm thinking that messing with them might break that
> consistency.
> You'll want to 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>
>>>>> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>>>>> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>>>>>
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>>> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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>> Catherine Markham
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>> Princeton University
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> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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Catherine Markham
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