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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Union has under 12 years error (D) (everU12)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 196403

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 31

End: 31

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Union has under 12 years error

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

bys ident idspouse: egen youngestident=min(ident_age)
bys ident idspouse: egen youngestidspouse=min(idspouse_age)
gen everU12=0
replace everU12=1 if (youngestident<12 & youngestident~=.) | (youngestidspouse<12 & youngestidspouse~=.)

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