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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more detailed description of date1 (D) (rsn1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 25

End: 25

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	StatusRep	59022	44%
2	Marriage	25373	18.9%
3	1stRepOfMar	6571	4.9%
4	LastRepOfMar	7140	5.3%
5	Divorce	9122	6.8%
6	Death (sp)	1367	1%
7	Death (own)	0	0%
8	ep censor	21388	15.9%
9	ep split	4194	3.1%

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: 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])

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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