[Babase] Question about adding demography notes

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:36:53 +0000


On 09/07/2005 10:45:39 AM, Leah Gerber wrote:
> Karl,
> 
> We are working on making conversion errors and need a clarification  
> from you. When were are adding a demography note that is an  
> explanation and does not actually refer to data in the field  
> notebooks how do we go about keeping track that this record is not  
> the same as other field demography notes? Do we add another row in  
> census with the status of D or is there a way to have just one  
> members or census row with two different statuses (origin in  
> members). For example we have a row in census with status R and would  
> like to add a demography note to go along with that row. How can we  
> denote this row as Status R and D simultaneously?

Please double check the new documentation to be sure this is
clear and correct -- The only time you put a D status in the
census row is when there is no "existing" census, that is,
when the census row exists only to support a demography note.
Otherwise, you can add a DEMOG row to any existing census
row and just leave the census row alone.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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