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Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
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Reference ID
MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01
Producer(s)
Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin
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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets
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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Nov 14, 2025
Last modified
Nov 19, 2025
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  • all_spouse_pairs_full
  • marital_status_episodes

Data file: 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

Cases: 22800
Variables: 32

Variables

wife
Unique identifier of wife (D)
husband
Unique identifier of husband (D)
repby
Union ever reported by (D)
agediff
Age difference between spouses (D)
newparlink
Partnership only from co-parent link (D)
heverpolyn
Max number of spouses husband reports while in this union (D)
everpoly
Union was ever polygamous (D)
evercur
Union ever reported to be current (D)
mardate
Marriage date (15-April of reported year) (D)
datatypeM
mardate datatype (D)
mardtest
if mardate is estimated (D)
informantM
mardate informant (D)
fstknwmardate
First known married date (D)
datatypeFM
fstknwmardate datatype (D)
fstknwmardtest
if fstknwmardate is estimated (D)
informantFM
fstknwmardate informant (D)
stillmardate
Last date still reported to be married (D)
datatypeSM
stillmardate datatype (D)
stillmardtest
if stillmardate is estimated (D)
informantSM
stillmardate informant (D)
sepdate
Separation date (15-Aug of reported year) (D)
datatypeS
sepdate datatype (D)
sepdtest
if sepdate is estimated (D)
informantS
sepdate informant (D)
died
Which partner died (D)
firstrepdate
First date of any report (D)
lastrepdate
Last date of any report (D)
firstrepdatecrs
First date of any report while in the CRS (D)
lastrepdatecrs
Last date of any report while in the CRS (D)
evercrs
Either partner ever a CRS member (D)
fstmarrepdate
First date reported married (D)
lstmarrepdate
Last date reported married (D)
Total: 32
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