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Cleaned spouse and marriage data

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Reference ID
MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01
Producer(s)
Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin
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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets
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if date1 is estimated (D) (dtest1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 19
End: 19
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 5
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 109115
81.3%
1 Day est 0
0%
2 Day&month 20509
15.3%
3 est due to overlap 198
0.1%
4 ep censor 0
0%
5 ep split 4355
3.2%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
variable: mardtest (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: fstknwmardtest (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: stillmardtest (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: sepdtest (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

This variable is taken from the all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised and the all_marital_reports datasets, depending on which record is retained for the episode, if the episode starts or ends due to episode censor or split, this variable reflects this.
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