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Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi
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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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number of spouses for episode (D) (spousenum)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 55950
Invalid: 78227
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 27
End: 28
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
97 Not applicable
98 Unknown
99 Missing
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: spousenum (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])
variable: idspouse (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

this come directly from all_marital_reports and is updated once the spouse ids have been added into the episode data.
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