[DDI-SRG] NCube Attribute question

[Wendy Thomas]

I'll look further later tonight. thanks for the clarification

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Joachim Wackerow wrote:

> Sorry, when I was not clear enough.
>
> Some of the data cells have a count below a limit, where data items could not 
> be published; in the example this belongs to data cells below 6. These data 
> cells will be set to the mean of the limit (here 3), so the totals get not 
> biased to one side. I named these cells "closed", the details are not open to 
> the public, just the mean (here 3) is shown. Each of these cells should get 
> an indicator, that the number doesn't represent the true data.
>
> My intention was to use Attribute in
> /nci:RecordLayout/nci:NCubeInstance/nci:DataItem/nci:Attribute
>
> This seems to be the right place, because the note is related to a specific 
> data cell. There is no structural reason for this note, which can be 
> described in the logical product.
>
> Example:
>
> nci:DataItem>
>  <nci:Dimension value="2" rank="1"/>
>  <nci:Dimension value="1" rank="2"/>
>  <nci:Attribute>
>    <nci:AttributeReference>
>      <ru:ID>DisclosureControlNote</ru:ID>
>    </nci:AttributeReference>
>    <nci:Value>anonymized</nci:Value>
>  </nci:Attribute>
>  <nci:Measure>
>  <nci:MeasureReference>
>    <ru:ID>Measure_N</ru:ID>
>
> The field-level documentation says
> AttributeReference: Reference to attribute description
> Attribute: Provides for a choice between an explicit value, or a location in 
> a file where the value can be found.
>
> But both fields are mandatory, there is no choice. This seems to be a bug. 
> There should be a choice. The Value is probably the value of a related 
> variable. But in my case the AttributeReference to an attribute description 
> seems to be the right place.
>
> Anyway my original question was where to store the attribute description. A 
> regular note doesn't seem to be the right place. Then we would have some 
> circular reference. The attribute points to the note and the note points to 
> the attribute.
>
> Did I overlook something?
>
> Achim
>
> Wendy Thomas wrote:
>> IF this is a default value occuring in the same location(s) in each 
>> potential instance of the NCube
>> In
>> <NCubeLogicalProduct>
>>   <NCubeScheme>
>>     <NCube>
>>      <Attribute isIdentifiable>
>>        <AttachmentValue>
>> 
>> If it is a potential value (e.g. suppression code) then it is an alternate 
>> measure described by a variable with a coded value and label. Where the 
>> measured value say count is blank or simply not there and the measure 
>> suppression flag has a value of the appropriate code.
>> 
>> Actually without seeing your example I'm just speculating possible 
>> scenarios.
>> 
>> Wendy
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Joachim Wackerow wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using the Attribute in inline ncube. Now I'm wondering where to
>>> store the attribute description to which the AttributeReference is
>>> pointing to. The intention is to use Attribute like a footnote with a
>>> descriptive text for closed data items. This is not related to any
>>> variable/dimension.
>>> 
>>> Achim
>>> 
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> Postal address: P.O. Box 122155, 68072 Mannheim, Germany
> Visiting address: B2 1, 68159 Mannheim, Germany
> Phone: +49 (0)621 1246 262
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> E-mail: joachim.wackerow at gesis.org
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Wendy L. Thomas                          Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director		 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center              Email: wlt at pop.umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
225 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455