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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Union ever reported by (D) (repby)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 21253

Invalid: 1547

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 15

End: 15

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	3992	18.8%
2	husband	1686	7.9%
3	both	15575	73.3%
4	Residency data	0	0%
Sysmiss		1547

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.

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Definition

Union ever reported by

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: repby (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_full [derived table])

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