[Babase] Changing Immigrant Male Census Data

Lacey Maryott Roerish lroerish4 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 15:09:59 EST 2009


Is this still running Karl?

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Karl O. Pinc <kop at meme.com> wrote:

> On 11/18/2009 10:29:56 AM, nlearn at princeton.edu wrote:
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> >  On Wed 18/11/09 10:44 AM , "Karl O. Pinc" kop at meme.com sent:
>
> >  I don't think that more recent immigrant males are in MEMBERS
> >  at all in between their "birth" and when they first appear,
> >  right?
> >  Niki writes:
> >  No, it looks like they show up in members as being interpolated in
> > group 9 from birth up through the day before they appear in the
> > census.  See ZAK as an example.
>
> Yeah.  The documentation for GROUPS says:
>
> Special Values
>
> Group 9.0, Unknown, has a special meaning. Individuals are placed in
> this group by Interpolation when an their whereabouts are unknown.
>
> > So it sounds like Karl's plan of
> > deleting all the weird census data prior to the date of entry to a
> > study group is a good start - if we then change the entry on the
> > entry date to a regular census entry, it should interpolate the male
> > as group 9 prior to that, right?  At least as long as that is listed
> > as their matgroup.  And then I guess we can worry about the other old
> > codes that occur after the entry date when the real census data is
> > ready for upload.
>
> We shouldn't need to change any of the existing rows (except perhaps
> the BIOGRAPH.Matgrp value).  Having an "old style" Status code for
> an individuals first CENSUS row should just mean that there's no
> interpolation prior to that date, and if the whereabouts of the
> individual are unknown then (s)he should wind up in the unknown
> group.  I'm testing this out and will let you know the results.
>
>
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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