[Babase] BaBase Members Table - 2 Questions
Catherine Markham
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:35:43 -0500
Hi all,
I have two general question about the Members table:
First, in doing some queries earlier this week, I noticed that there
were many cases where the origin was "I" and interp = 0. This seemed a
funny to me at first - I read it as indicating the record was
interpolated but the number of days interpolated was zero. After
looking into it a bit more, I see that these are records for the birth
or death date of an individual. So that made a bit more sense - if a
census didn't happen to fall on the estimated date of birth/death, we
would generally want some way of getting that info into members.
But what about the birth estimates where the bstatus is greater than 0?
Should that estimated birth date go into the members table? As an
example, Arsenal's birth date is estimated to be 14 Aug 1996 with a
bstatus of 1 (accuracy for birth estimate within 1 year) and a matgrp of
9.0. Arsenal was first observed in the field in Viola's group on 7 Feb
2004. So the members table for Arsenal has interpolated dates for 14
days forward from birth (14 Aug 1996 through 28 Aug 1996) in his matgrp
(group 9.0), and then regular census/interpolation in Viola's group
begins on 7 Feb 2004.
My second question deals with six records in Members table where there
the date field is blank. Since the origin is "I" and interp = 0 for
these records as well, I thought perhaps they were cases in Biograph
where the birth or death date was blank. But no luck - all of these
guys have birth dates entered and none have died. Does anyone know how
these records got pulled into the Members table? There are no blank
dates in the Census table. The six individuals are KRA, TAP, ORN, AMO,
ISR, and APO.
Sorry if you all have been through these before or if I'm missing
something obvious!
Catherine