[Babase] Dcause's again

Catherine Markham babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:19:37 -0400


Hi all,

As far as I can tell, a dcause of 5 was always loss of mother.  I've 
looked into a couple of the females from Leah's list and found for 6 of 
the 7 females (all except for GIN), the female died on the same day as 
one of their kids.  Both kid AND mom were assigned dcauses of 5.  I 
don't agree with this logic, but in rereading the dcause codes can see 
how the wording might be misleading:

"This category includes instances of infant and mother's simultaneous 
death not assignable to previous categories."

I'll look into the records in more detail, but in the meantime just 
wanted to pass along that note.

Catherine



Jeanne Altmann wrote:
> Almost surely so;
> jeanne
> 
> At 12:46 PM 19/10/2005, you wrote:
> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> While doing  a recent query for Susan I noticed some Dcauses that do 
>>> not make sense. There are seven females who have dcause 5 (loss of 
>>> mother) when their ages range from approximately 8 to 24 years old at 
>>> the statdate. I think these need to be revisited at some point.
>>>
>>> The females are VEN, ALF, SCH, FLU, RIN, GIN, and HAN
>>
>>
>>
>>  I wonder whether these are leftovers from the old dcause scheme that 
>> was in place before Jeanne and Jessica revised the list of dcauses?
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
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