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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Partnership only from co-parent link (D) (newparlink)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 196403

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 34

End: 34

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 1

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Partnership only from co-parent link

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

<The variable parlink is created when co-parent data is processed before being appended to other spouse data:>
use ${newstata}\gen_identity_clean, clear
replace idmoth="" if idmoth=="UUUUUUU"
replace idfath="" if idfath=="UUUUUUU"
keep if idmoth~="" & idfath~=""
rename (idmoth idfath) (ident idspouse)
gen parlink=1
<After all data are combined parlink is used to id couples who remain in the dataset as they have lived together but have never reported each other as spouses:>
recode parlink .=0
bys wife husband: egen newparlink=min(parlink)

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