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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Sex (sex)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134175

Invalid: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 8

End: 8

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: sex (table[s]: gen_identity_clear [derived table])

<on all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised:>
expand 2, gen(exp1)
gen sex=0 if exp1==1
replace sex=1 if exp1==0
<on all_marstatus_reports:>
merge m:1 ident using ${newstata}\gen_identity_clean, keep(master match) keepusing(sex) nogen

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