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

Last modified

Nov 19, 2025

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Unique identifier (ident)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Start: 1

End: 7

Width: 7

Range: -

Format: character

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: wife (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: husband (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: ident (table[s]: all_marstatus_reports [derived table])

<on all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised:>
expand 2, gen(exp)
gen ident=wife if exp1==0
replace ident=husband if exp1==1
drop if ident==""

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