[Babase] Procedures for Incomplete Censuses
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:56:32 -0400
Hi all,
I was looking at the May 1999 census sheets for Dotty's group and
noticed that 5 May 1999 was an incomplete census day. Out of curiosity,
I checked the Members and Census tables in BaBase to see what had been
updated. No census data was entered, even for the positive presences (I
wouldn't expect to see any confirmed absences). Consequently, all rows
in the Members table were interpolated for that day.
It doesn't seem like we have the trouble of incomplete censuses in the
more recent data that I've been entering, but even if we did we would
have demography notes as one method for getting the presences entered.
I was wondering if anyone knew what the protocols used to be and if
there was a reason why the confirmed presences hadn't been put into
BaBase. In other words, isn't the lack of any census info in BaBase for
5 May 1999 a problem that I should correct?
Thanks,
Catherine