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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who reported the union [1] (D) (repby1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 45241

Invalid: 88936

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 59

End: 59

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	8156	18%
2	husband	3380	7.5%
3	both	33705	74.5%
4	Residency data	0	0%
Sysmiss		88936

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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: repby (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

Data from all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised is converted to a wide listing of spouses per person with start and end dates, this is merged into the episode data and repby for the spouse assigned to the record where they were current spouses

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