Cleaned spouse and marriage data

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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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Nov 14, 2025

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Self or proxy report (D) (slf)

Data file: all_marital_reports

Overview

Valid: 263195

Invalid: 144

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 22

End: 23

Width: 2

Range: -1 - 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases
-1	Unknown	1165	0.4%
0	Proxy-report	210895	80.1%
1	Self-report	51135	19.4%
Sysmiss		144

Description

Definition

Self or proxy report

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: self (table[s]: cen_individ, crs_cenm, gp_gpform, tb_tbh, tb_tbo, tb_tboto2007, tb_tbx, tb_tbxto2007)
variable: infmtype (table[s]: crs_cenm)
variable: infmtype2 (table[s]: crs_cenm)
variable: relinform (table[s]: tb_tbx)
variable: informtid (table[s]: gp_gpform)

<for AHS (no proxies):>
gen slf=1
<for CEN:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if self==0 | informtid~=""
replace slf=1 if self==1
<for CENM:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if self==0 | (infmtype~=. & infmtype~=6) //6=self
replace slf=1 if self==1 | infmtype==6
<for GP:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if self==0 | informtid~=""
replace slf=1 if self==1
<for SEI:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if infmtype2~=1 & infmtype2~=99 & infmtype~=6
replace slf=1 if infmtype2==1 | infmtype==6
<for TBH:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if self==0
replace slf=1 if self==1
<for TBO:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if self==0
replace slf=1 if self==1
<for TBX:>
recode slf .=-1
replace slf=0 if (relinform~=8 & relinform~=.) | informtid~=""
replace slf=1 if relinform==8

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