Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi

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Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

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Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

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Nov 14, 2025

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if stillmardate is estimated (D) (stillmardtest)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 15178

Invalid: 7622

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 64

End: 64

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	No	15113	99.6%
1	Day est	0	0%
2	Day&month	40	0.3%
3	est due to overlap	25	0.2%
4	ep censor	0	0%
5	ep split	0	0%
Sysmiss		7622

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

if stillmardate is estimated (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

The dtest variable is updated depending on which final stillmardate is used.

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