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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Max number of spouses husband reports while in this union (D) (heverpolyn)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 164160

Invalid: 32243

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 51

End: 52

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

Max number of spouses husband reports while in this union

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: informant (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])
variable: spousenum (table[s]: all_marital_reports [derived table])

replace spousenum=. if informant==1 //only want husband number of spouses to know if union is polygamous
bys wife husband: egen heverpolyn=max(spousenum)

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