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

Last modified

Nov 19, 2025

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age difference between individual and their spouse [1] (D) (agediff1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 48270

Invalid: 85907

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 57

End: 58

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 44

Format: Numeric

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: agediff (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

Data from all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised is converted to a wide listing of spouses per person with start and end dates, this is merged into the episode data and agediff for the spouse assigned to the record where they were current spouses

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