How to populate the death date when you only have the year or year and month

Issue # and location

Themis issue #104

Issue summary

The death.death_date field has day resolution. Some source data may not have complete datestamp of the deceased persons’ death date. How should the day be approximated if only the year or year and month of death are available?

Convention type

Table

CDM table

DEATH

CDM field

death_date

Links to issue discussion

CDM Documentation

Provenance of data

General

The ratified convention

• If the given death date only includes month and year, the last day of the month is used as the default.
• If the given death date only includes year, December is used as the default month, and the last day of the month the default day.

Date of ratification/published

NA

Downstream implications

NA

Link to DQD check

Yes - plausibleDuringLife and plausibleBeforeDeath

Related conventions/further information

NA