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These tables contain the permanent records of baboon-related data. For the most part this data are as collected in the field, although presumably the field staff is not perfect and there will be some errors that are corrected before data entry into Babase. Some columns, and more rarely entire rows, do contain derived data. Some of the derived data, such as pregnancy parity, is manually maintained, other derived data, such as sexual cycle sequence numbers or menses dates computed from onset of turgesence, is maintained by the system. The documentation clearly indicates which data are collected in the field, which data are derivative, and how derived data values are constructed.[24]
[24] There are, of course, also system generated row identifiers, which are arbitrary and not derived from any field collected data.