[Babase] Correcting Census/Members Old-style Rows

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:44:57 -0400


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?

Thanks,
Catherine


Catherine Markham wrote:
> 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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