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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if date2 is estimated (D) (dtest2)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 39

End: 43

Width: 5

Range: 0 - 17800

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	123505	92%
1	Day est	0	0%
2	Day&month	6176	4.6%
3	est due to overlap	164	0.1%
4	ep censor	0	0%
5	ep split	4331	3.2%
17800		1	0%

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: dtest1 (table[s]:this dataset)

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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