[Babase] Morris (MOR) and interpolation rules in members table +
incomplete censuses!
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Thu Aug 20 20:55:25 EDT 2009
On 08/20/2009 04:04:42 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
>
> > On a related question, Jeanne and Susan, we have in this update a
> > lot of incomplete census data. ....
> >
> > In the case of current data generated by Courtney (and probably
> > older data generated by others), this means that sometimes males
> who
>
> > move around a lot are verified as absent on an incomplete census
> day
>
> > though they had been present on the previous full census day (and
> > may be either present or absent on the next full census day). With
>
> > the way uploads work I cannot enter such incomplete census data
> with
>
> > the full census data because every individual listed in the sheet
> > must be marked either present or absent and we don't have that data
>
> > for every individual on those dates. I could, if desired, either
> > use a demog note to mark them as present with an unknown group
> (9.0)
>
> This seems like a good option in these cases. But as you noted
> earlier, we currently don't use "not here" info in demog notes. Would
>
> doing so require any structural or any other changes to data entry or
>
> babase?
The documentation does not say you can't,
and it implies that you can so I assume you can.
If you try it and it does not work we can change
something. Be sure to set the Cen column to false
so the CENUSU row is deleted if the DEMOG row is deleted.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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