Re: [Gnumed-devel] demographics.sql

[Hilmar Berger]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:37:07 +0100
Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:


> So the order of importance is like this ?
> 
> 1) full name at birth
> 2) date of birth in Gregorian Calendar
> 3) mothers name at birth of person
> 
> 4) ethnicity
> 5) country of birth at time of birth
> 
> with 4 and 5 only really starting to be useful in countries
> with high percentages of first-generation immigrants...
At least in Germany there you usually ask for the *place* of birth more 
frequently than for
mothers name at birth of person. As I said before, the exact list of parameters 
will depend on regional
habits and the data you might want to link against lateron.
> Comments ?  Should the results of this discussion be collected
> in the Wiki ?
IMHO yes, later it should find it's way into the developer manual.
 
Hilmar