[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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