Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

Collections

Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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if mardate is estimated (D) (mardtest)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 14371

Invalid: 8429

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	5253	36.6%
1	Day est	0	0%
2	Day&month	8949	62.3%
3	est due to overlap	169	1.2%
4	ep censor	0	0%
5	ep split	0	0%
Sysmiss		8429

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

if mardate is estimated (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

The dtest variable is updated depending on which final mardate is used.

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