[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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