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

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Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 19, 2025

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Start date of episode (D) (date1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Type: Discrete

Start: 9

End: 18

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: character

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: mardate (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: fstknwmardate (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: stillmardate (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: sepdate (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: intdate (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])

The summary dates for all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised converted to episodes and then combined with episodes created from all_marital_reports and are then processed to remove over-lapping time.

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