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 incest error (D) (incest)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 196403

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 32

End: 32

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Union has incest error

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: ident (table[s]: gen_spouse)
variable: idspouse (table[s]: gen_spouse)
variable: idmoth (table[s]: gen_identity)
variable: idfath (table[s]: gen_identity)

gen incest=0
replace incest=1 if (ident_idmoth==idspouse & ident_idmoth~="" & idspouse~="") | (ident_idfath==idspouse & ident_idfath~="" & idspouse~="") | (idspouse_idmoth==ident & idspouse_idmoth~="" & ident~="") | (idspouse_idfath==ident & idspouse_idfath~="" & ident~="")

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