Of course most posters have not read through all the posts on this thread, before asking questions, or making comments. I find myself doing this also, from time to time. I go back and look and see that the information I'm sharing has already been given in a post 20 or 30 posts down the line.
I finally caught up with all the comments here but it took me nearly all afternoon, as I kept getting distracted. Anyway, the reason I talked about 9 being typically a code for a null field (other than that it’s true, something I know from long experience):
Verna Lee said that for the race of the father, 9 meant “unstated”. For the other field, the type of business where he was “employed”, 9 again meant “unstated”. So if any field was left blank (unstated), then they’d code it as a 9. It means the same thing in both cases: the field wasn’t filled in.
The pdf that Kleon supplied seems to be speaking about the coding of that section of the birth certificate that is usually not shown on certified copies. There are other documents online that do show race codes and they don’t exactly match what Kleon’s file shows, so they may be from two separate coding systems.
I lean towards the evidence provided by Verna, because she’s the person who signed Obama’s record (if you believe it’s real. They could have copied her signature onto that image in the pdf.) She worked there at the time and was responsible for seeing that the coding was done correctly.
You’re probably right that at this point I don’t know what I’m talking about. :)
I can't find where she explains this. Is there a recording?