MEIRU Microdata Portal
  • Home
  • Overview
  • Microdata Catalog
  • Citations
  • Login
    Login
    Home / Central Data Catalog / MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-V01
central

Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
Get Microdata
Reference ID
MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01
Producer(s)
Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin
Collections
Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Nov 14, 2025
Last modified
Nov 19, 2025
Page views
6686
Downloads
106
  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Downloads
  • Get Microdata
  • Data files
  • all_marital_reports
  • all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised
  • all_spouse_pairs_full
  • marital_status_episodes

Data Dictionary

Data file Cases Variables
all_marital_reports
This is a listing of all the times an individual has reported their current marital status with the id numbers of the reported spouse(s); this listing is as reported so may include discrepancies (i.e. a 'Never married' status following a 'Married' one)
In the variable labels (S) indicates that the variable is unchanged from the original source and (D) indicates that it is a 'derived' variable, often using more than one source variable. For both types information on where the data come from and how they are processed is found in the 'Recoding and Derivation' section
263339 16
all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised
This summarises the data from all_spouse_pairs_full to give start and end dates of unions
In the variable labels (S) indicates that the variable is unchanged from the original source and (D) indicates that it is a 'derived' variable, often using more than one source variable. For both types information on where the data come from and how they are processed is found in the 'Recoding and Derivation' section
22800 32
all_spouse_pairs_full
This a listing of each time each spouse pair has been reported plus summary information on co-residency for each pair
In the variable labels (S) indicates that the variable is unchanged from the original source and (D) indicates that it is a 'derived' variable, often using more than one source variable. For both types information on where the data come from and how they are processed is found in the 'Recoding and Derivation' section
196403 33
marital_status_episodes
This combines data from all the sources to create episodes of marital status, each has a start and end date and a marital status, and if currently married, the spouse ids of the current spouse(s) if reported. There are several variables to indicate where each piece of information is coming from.
In the variable labels (S) indicates that the variable is unchanged from the original source and (D) indicates that it is a 'derived' variable, often using more than one source variable. For both types information on where the data come from and how they are processed is found in the 'Recoding and Derivation' section
134177 32
Back to Catalog
MEIRU Microdata Portal

© MEIRU Microdata Portal | admin@meirudata.mw | All Rights Reserved | Register