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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Nov 19, 2025

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Which partner died (D) (died)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 1525

Invalid: 21275

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 79

End: 79

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 3

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	348	22.8%
2	husband	1177	77.2%
3	both	0	0%
Sysmiss		21275

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.

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Definition

Which partner died (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

Updated to wife or husband if their death date is taken as sepdate

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