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

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 19, 2025

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spouses's id [4] (D) (idspouse4)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 12

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 83

End: 89

Width: 7

Range: -

Format: character

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: idspouse (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 spouse ids assigned to the record where they were current spouses

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