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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Age difference between spouses (D) (agediff)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 196385

Invalid: 18

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 28

End: 29

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 69

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Age difference between spouses

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: ident (table[s]: gen_spouse)
variable: idspouse (table[s]: gen_spouse)
variable: birth_date (table[s]: gen_identity_clean [derived table])

rename (ident idspouse) (ident1 ident)
merge m:1 ident using ${newstata}\gen_identity_clean.dta, keepusing(sex birth_date idmoth idfath) keep(master match) nogen
gen idspouse_age=int((intdate-birth_date)/365.25) if birth_date~=.
gen idspouse_yob=year(birth_date) if birth_date~=.
drop birth_date
rename (ident1 ident sex idmoth idfath) (ident idspouse idspouse_sex idspouse_idmoth idspouse_idfath)
gen agediff=abs(ident_age-idspouse_age)

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