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Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
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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
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Nov 14, 2025
Last modified
Nov 19, 2025
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  • all_spouse_pairs_full
  • marital_status_episodes

Data file: 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

Cases: 196403
Variables: 33

Variables

wife
Unique identifier of wife (D)
husband
Unique identifier of husband (D)
datatype
Type of data (D)
sumdate
Summary date for record (D)
repby
Union ever reported by (D)
confirmed
Both partners report the union at least once (D)
agediff
Age difference between spouses (D)
samesex
Union has same sex error (D)
everU12
Union has under 12 years error (D)
incest
Union has incest error (D)
crs
Partners ever CRS members (D)
newparlink
Partnership only from co-parent link (D)
ques
Source of marstatus record (D)
poprep
Source is population representative (D)
date
Interview date of marstatus record (D)
informant
Informant of marstatus record (D)
match
Whether partner reports union in same round (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)
stillmardate
Last date still reported to be married (D)
sepdate
Separation date (15-Aug of reported year) (D)
who
Partner who moved in/out (D)
type
Type of residency data (D)
rmardate
Date known to be married with residency data (D)
rsepdate
Date known to be separated with residency data (D)
w_rsn
Wife's reason for res ep start/stop (D)
h_rsn
Husband's reason for res ep start/stop (D)
w_lastalive
Last known date wife alive (D)
w_firstdead
First known date wife dead (D)
h_lastalive
Last known date husband alive (D)
h_firstdead
First known date husband dead (D)
Total: 33
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