Off ward field: Difference between revisions

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::: It actually looks like we used this from 2014 onward, even if the data definition on this page says from 2016.

There is a weird spike in Jan 2018, other than that numbers in a similar range between 16-07 and 20-03. So from when until when would we consider this data reliable? We should likely clean up values outside that range so no one thinks records are reliably tagged outside that range. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 11:23, 2022 August 23 (CDT)

** Tina, for the pre2016 profiles, the OFFWARD field is pre-populated by the old VAR3, VAR4,VAR5 (see below) and therefore they are reliable. Actually Var3 to Var5 specify the units they are overflowing (similar with tmp Boarding but only with location and no start dates). If I remember right, when Allan introduced OFFWARD, he was thinking of the specific location but the idea was not received well and so decided just to be binary code YES/NO. For research project needing historical data, I think binary data would still be useful. we can either keep it as or be saved as tmp project. --[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 15:38, 2022 August 29 (CDT) }}

** Tina, for the pre2016 profiles, the OFFWARD field is pre-populated by the old VAR3, VAR4,VAR5 (see below) and therefore they are reliable. Actually Var3 to Var5 specify the units they are overflowing (similar with tmp Boarding but only with location and no start dates). If I remember right, when Allan introduced OFFWARD, he was thinking of the specific location but the idea was not received well and so decided just to be binary code YES/NO. For research project needing historical data, I think binary data would still be useful. we can either keep it AS IS or be saved as tmp project. --[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 15:38, 2022 August 29 (CDT) }}

Use of this field is likely inconsistent after 2019-09; we started [[Boarding Loc]] which implies the content of this field but failed to properly phase out this field at the time.

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 ::: It actually looks like we used this from 2014 onward, even if the data definition on this page says from 2016.
 There is a weird spike in Jan 2018, other than that numbers in a similar range between 16-07 and 20-03. So from when until when would we consider this data reliable? We should likely clean up values outside that range so no one thinks records are reliably tagged outside that range. [[User:Ttenbergen|Ttenbergen]] 11:23, 2022 August 23 (CDT)
-** Tina, for the  pre2016 profiles, the OFFWARD field is pre-populated by the old VAR3, VAR4,VAR5 (see below) and therefore they are reliable.  Actually Var3 to Var5 specify the units  they are overflowing (similar with tmp Boarding but only with location and no start dates). If I remember right, when Allan introduced OFFWARD, he was thinking of the specific location but the idea was not received well and so decided just to be binary code YES/NO.  For research project needing historical data, I think binary data would  still be useful. we can either keep it as or be saved  as tmp project.   --[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 15:38, 2022 August 29 (CDT)  }}
+** Tina, for the  pre2016 profiles, the OFFWARD field is pre-populated by the old VAR3, VAR4,VAR5 (see below) and therefore they are reliable.  Actually Var3 to Var5 specify the units  they are overflowing (similar with tmp Boarding but only with location and no start dates). If I remember right, when Allan introduced OFFWARD, he was thinking of the specific location but the idea was not received well and so decided just to be binary code YES/NO.  For research project needing historical data, I think binary data would  still be useful. we can either keep it AS IS  or be saved  as tmp project.   --[[User:JMojica|JMojica]] 15:38, 2022 August 29 (CDT)  }}
 Use of this field is likely inconsistent after 2019-09; we started [[Boarding Loc]] which implies the content of this field but failed to properly phase out this field at the time.