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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mardate datatype (D) (datatypeM)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 14371

Invalid: 8429

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 33

End: 33

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Report	9118	63.4%
2	Residency	5253	36.6%
3	Both	0	0%
4	Death	0	0%
5	ep censor	0	0%
6	ep split	0	0%
Sysmiss		8429

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.

Description

Definition

mardate datatype (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

The datatype variable is updated depending on which final mardate is used.

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