ferc1 respondents using previous years' form -> data filed in wrong row_number #471
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data-cleaning
Tasks related to cleaning & regularizing data during ETL.
dbf
Data coming from FERC's old Visual FoxPro DBF database file format.
ferc1
Anything having to do with FERC Form 1
rmi
plant_in_service_ferc1 table headers contain data
In the transform step of the
plant_in_service_ferc1
table, there are a handful of cases in which the header rows contain data in the original database. This should never happen. All instances of this phenomenon are in the years 2004-2005, which is immediately after the table underwent a revision (2003). In addition, the numbers reported in the header rows for 2004 and 2005 are almost identical to each other, so it seems like maybe someone was just re-submitting the same form in both years, ignoring the fact that the form itself had changed.This means that all of these records are probably bad. However, there are only a few dozen of them (out of ~30,000 total plant-years). It might be possible to recover this data, but it's probably not super
The indices of the resulting problematic records:
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