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Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
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MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01
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Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin
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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets
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Nov 14, 2025
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  • marital_status_episodes

Data file: 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

Cases: 134177
Variables: 32

Variables

ident
Unique identifier
sex
Sex
date1
Start date of episode (D)
dtest1
if date1 is estimated (D)
datatype1
data type of date1 (D)
ques1
source if marital status report1 (D)
informant1
informant of date1 (D)
rsn1
more detailed description of date1 (D)
marital
marital status for episode (D)
spousenum
number of spouses for episode (D)
date2
End date of episode (D)
dtest2
if date2 is estimated (D)
datatype2
data type of date2 (D)
ques2
source if marital status report2 (D)
informant2
informant of date2 (D)
rsn2
more detailed description of date2 (D)
idspouse1
spouses's id [1] (D)
agediff1
age difference between individual and their spouse [1] (D)
repby1
who reported the union [1] (D)
parlink1
whether union only known about through co-parent link and co-residency [1] (D)
idspouse2
spouses's id [2] (D)
agediff2
age difference between individual and their spouse [2] (D)
repby2
who reported the union [2] (D)
parlink2
whether union only known about through co-parent link and co-residency [2] (D)
idspouse3
spouses's id [3] (D)
agediff3
age difference between individual and their spouse [3] (D)
repby3
who reported the union [3] (D)
parlink3
whether union only known about through co-parent link and co-residency [3] (D)
idspouse4
spouses's id [4] (D)
agediff4
age difference between individual and their spouse [4] (D)
repby4
who reported the union [4] (D)
parlink4
whether union only known about through co-parent link and co-residency [4] (D)
Total: 32
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