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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Informant of marstatus record (D) (informant)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 158094

Invalid: 38309

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 49

End: 49

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 3

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	85559	54.1%
2	husband	72535	45.9%
3	both	0	0%
Sysmiss		38309

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

Informant of marstatus record

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: informant (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])

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