NCD Combined analytical dataset

Malawi, 2013 - 2016

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-NCD-2013-v1.0

Producer(s)

Prof Moffat Nyirenda, Prof Shabbar Jaffar

Collections

Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS

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Nov 14, 2025

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Current marital status (D) (cmarital)

Data file: ncd_combined_data_all

Overview

Valid: 30553

Invalid: 22

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 61

End: 61

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

What is your current marital status?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never married	7001	22.9%
1	Married	19439	63.6%
2	Divorced/Separated	2194	7.2%
3	Widowed	1919	6.3%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		22

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: marital [marital status] (table[s]: css_seird1_8, css_sei)
variable: intdate [interview date] (table[s]: css_seird1_8, css_sei)
variable: comdate [completion date] (table[s]: ncdk_personal)
variable: cmarital (table[s]: ncdl_personal )
For Karonga, the latest marital status report from the SEI (css_seird1_8 or css_sei) is taken, for Lilongwe this question was asked directly (ncdl_personal).

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