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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Nov 14, 2025

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stillmardate informant (D) (informantSM)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 15209

Invalid: 7591

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 65

End: 65

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	1970	13%
2	husband	1869	12.3%
3	both	2307	15.2%
4	Residency data	9063	59.6%
Sysmiss		7591

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

stillmardate informant (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

The informant variable is updated depending on which final stillmardate is used.

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