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 date2 (D) (informant2)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 48

End: 48

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	proxy	12596	9.4%
1	self	7638	5.7%
2	spouse	2399	1.8%
3	self&spouse	1204	0.9%
4	res data	20594	15.3%
5	ep censor	83577	62.3%
6	ep split	6094	4.5%
9	nk if self or proxy	75	0.1%

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: informant1 (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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