[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:26:07 -0400
Oops - I'm sorry. TIT's rows in Census and Members only through October
1989 (I had written 1999 in my first email). So the old-style rows are
going to be an issue.
Karl, any thoughts considering that correction?
Catherine
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 07/14/2005 10:41:00 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is the best way to correct an omission from the Census and
>> Members tables for older records when the other census rows from the
>> time period are status = L?
>>
>> Specifically, I'm looking at records for Tito (sname = TIT) - she was
>> a female in Hook's group. Her rows in the BaBase Census and Members
>> table only go through October 1999 despite the fact that she was
>> marked present on field census sheets from November 1999 until her
>> death in June 1990. Other Hook's group census info was entered in
>> BaBase during this time window so the omission appears to be TIT
>> specific.
>>
>> I know creating a census dbf file for the missing dates for TIT and
>> then doing valcen and upcen would work for more recent records, but
>> should I resort to manual corrections for these older records?
>
>
> I thought the census information started 1994 or thereabouts so
> I'd figure you'd treat this like any other census error since then.
>
> Karl <kop@meme.com>
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