[Babase] Changing Immigrant Male Census Data
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Wed Nov 18 11:51:33 EST 2009
On 11/18/2009 10:29:56 AM, nlearn at princeton.edu wrote:
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> On Wed 18/11/09 10:44 AM , "Karl O. Pinc" kop at meme.com sent:
> I don't think that more recent immigrant males are in MEMBERS
> at all in between their "birth" and when they first appear,
> right?
> Niki writes:
> No, it looks like they show up in members as being interpolated in
> group 9 from birth up through the day before they appear in the
> census. See ZAK as an example.
Yeah. The documentation for GROUPS says:
Special Values
Group 9.0, Unknown, has a special meaning. Individuals are placed in
this group by Interpolation when an their whereabouts are unknown.
> So it sounds like Karl's plan of
> deleting all the weird census data prior to the date of entry to a
> study group is a good start - if we then change the entry on the
> entry date to a regular census entry, it should interpolate the male
> as group 9 prior to that, right? At least as long as that is listed
> as their matgroup. And then I guess we can worry about the other old
> codes that occur after the entry date when the real census data is
> ready for upload.
We shouldn't need to change any of the existing rows (except perhaps
the BIOGRAPH.Matgrp value). Having an "old style" Status code for
an individuals first CENSUS row should just mean that there's no
interpolation prior to that date, and if the whereabouts of the
individual are unknown then (s)he should wind up in the unknown
group. I'm testing this out and will let you know the results.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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