[Babase] Group 99 - MORE

Susan Alberts babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 4 May 2005 12:32:42 -0400


Following up on my previous comment:

Leah and I are going through some files. It is not obvious to me that 
99 means alone. I don't recall that we knew all that was alone time 
for all those males. It looks to me as if sometimes it means unknown.

We need to know more. I am not sure when I will have time to track this down.

Susan

>If 99 used to mean alone and we no longer want to use 99 then it 
>would have to go to 10.
>
>S
>
>>yes, 99 goes to 10; ok Susan?
>>jeanne
>>
>>At 08:56 AM 04/05/2005, you wrote:
>>>>I agree that we should abandon 99. I just re-checked all my 
>>>>original males files and confirmed that I never used 99, only 9, 
>>>>and I always assigned a male zero for alone - in my database, 
>>>>there was only a single integer value allowed for wherever the 
>>>>male was. So if it was used before babase it must have come from 
>>>>somewhere other than my files. And given that none of us 
>>>>remembers or quite understands it, we should jettison it.
>>>>Susan
>>>
>>>So I should change the group id for males currently in Members and 
>>>Census with Group 99 to Group 10, right?  Do you want me to look 
>>>into these case by case, or simply do a quick replace with FoxPro 
>>>commands?
>>>
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