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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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marital status for episode (D) (marital)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134167
Invalid: 10
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 26
End: 26
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Never married 35166
26.2%
1 Married 53656
40%
2 Divorced/separated 17841
13.3%
3 Widowed 5040
3.8%
4 N/A (dead) 0
0%
8 Unknown 0
0%
9 Missing 22464
16.7%
Sysmiss 10
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])
variable: marital (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])

For episodes created using all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised within the main marriage dates episode the marital status is married, an episode created using the end date of the main episode has the marital status as divorced or widowed, or unknown depending what is know about the marriage. The episodes created using all_marital_reports use the original marital variable appended. Following cleaning and adding spouse ids marital is updated if required.
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