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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informant of date1 (D) (informant1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 24

End: 24

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	proxy	41270	30.8%
1	self	23340	17.4%
2	spouse	7215	5.4%
3	self&spouse	15163	11.3%
4	res data	20745	15.5%
5	ep censor	21388	15.9%
6	ep split	4646	3.5%
9	nk if self or proxy	410	0.3%

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: informantM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: informantFM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: informantSM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: informantS (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

the informant variables are taken from the all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised dataset, they are only changed if there is more than one record per date (the average value is used)

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