[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:07:36 +0000
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."
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> Catherine Markham
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