Home / Central Data Catalog / MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-V01 / variable [F5]
central

Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
Get Microdata
Reference ID
MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01
Producer(s)
Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin
Collections
Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Nov 14, 2025
Last modified
Nov 19, 2025
Page views
6712
Downloads
108

whether union only known about through co-parent link and co-residency [1] (D) (parlink1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 48270
Invalid: 85907
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 60
End: 60
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
variable: newparlink (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 parlink for the spouse assigned to the record where they were current spouses
Back to Catalog