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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fstknwmardate informant (D) (informantFM)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 8304

Invalid: 14496

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 52

End: 52

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	wife	1547	18.6%
2	husband	1445	17.4%
3	both	2924	35.2%
4	Residency data	2388	28.8%
Sysmiss		14496

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

fstknwmardate informant (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

The informant variable is updated depending on which final fstknwmardate is used.

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