[Babase] Correcting PIDs for Missed Pregnancy

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:28:56 -0400


Great - thanks for the response, Karl.  I'll hold off on making the 
change to BaBase till I get a chance to confirm the abortion with Jeanne.

Catherine


Karl O. Pinc wrote:

> 
> On 07/14/2005 11:15:07 AM, Catherine Markham wrote:
> 
>>
>> A note from Daphne indicates that Sister had an abortion in December  
>> 1988 and that this abortion was never entered into the BaBase  
>> Biograph or Pregs tables.  SIS's data in the Cycles table looks  
>> correct - the problem is that it is not linked with a pregnancy.   
>> Looking back at the sexskin datasheets, she conceived on 28 June 1988  
>> (cid = 1688).  The abortion was 18 December 1988.  Her resume cycle  
>> was cid = 1689.
>>
>> If you agree that this abortion should be added reviewing the field  
>> notes, here's how I'd go about correcting BaBase:
>>
>> I would create a new row in Biograph for the abortion (same procedure  
>> as on this as I follow during demography update with statdate =  
>> birthdate, name field left blank, etc.).  SIS had pregnancies both  
>> before and after this abortion - this abortion will be inserted  
>> between SIS6 and SIS7. Before SIS died in 1990, she had a total of 8  
>> pregnancies (not including this one).  PID = SIS9 is the next pid in  
>> series.  I would assign that PID to this birth, but reorder the  
>> parity numbers such that the parity for SIS6 is 6, SIS9 is 7, SIS7 is  
>> 8, and SIS8 is 9.  I think this is consistent with the protocols that  
>> Daphne explained last fall (never change a PID but is ok to change  
>> the parity).  These PID changes would be made in both the Biograph  
>> and the Pregs tables.  Finally, I would also add a row to the Pregs  
>> table for PID = SIS9 with the conceive and resume cycles entered in.
> 
> 
> Looks right to me.
> 
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