[DDI-ADG] need help clarifying descriptions

[Wendy Thomas]

I'll try to get to this today, but since these are additions from J's
version I need to sit down and look at the whole thing. I apologize that
this has been low on my list, but its just the way things go sometimes.

wendy


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Ilona Einowski wrote:

> Wendy - after you left the call yesterday we had much discussion on these
> two elements:
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> dimensionReference - Row 20
> identifies the dimensionVariable describing this dimension
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> variableReference - Row 21
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> identifies the dimensionVariable describing this dimension
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> The new descriptions I attempted were as follows
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> dimensionReference - Row 20
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> indicates the name of the variable to be used as one of the coordinates of
> the nCube e.g. gender (GENDER1), or age (AGE), or party affiliation
> (PARTYID) .  I'm not sure if this note should be here describing
> dimensionReference or if it belong in Row 21 to describe dimensionVariable
> and this Row 20 should say "unique name for this particular dimension of
> this variable"
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> variableReference - Row 21
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> see note above for Row 20.
> 0r is it: identifies the variable in the file describing this dimension in
> the special cases where the catValu (Section 4 Variable 4.3.18.1)  provides
> the field content and the labl (Section 4 Variable 4.3.18.2) provides the
> code because in the file there is a physical record for each reported value
> of the variable for example,  in County Business Patterns there is a
> variable for Industry Code
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> In current Scheme it is defined as:  an IDREF that points to the variable
> that makes up this dimension of the nCube.
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> I promised the group I would forward this to you and see if you could
> untangle it for us.
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> Please reply all so we can all get on the same page ASAP.
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> Thanks!
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> Ilona
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> Ilona Einowski
> Assistant Director, User Services
> UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance
> 2538 Channing Way #5100
> Berkeley, CA  94720-5100
> 510-642-6571
> ilona_e at berkeley.edu
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