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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First date reported married (D) (fstmarrepdate)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised

Overview

Valid: 18870

Type: Discrete

Start: 121

End: 130

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: character

Description

Definition

Last date of any report while in the CRS (D)

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

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

<after all the summary dates are finalised the earliest date either of the partners reported being married to the other partner that is on or after mardate or fstknwmardate is taken:>
egen start=rowmin(mardate fstknwmardate)
bys wife husband: egen temp1=min(stillmardateO) if stillmardateO~=. & stillmardateO>=start
bys wife husband: egen fstmarrepdate=max(temp1)

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