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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Number of current spouses (D) (spousenum)

Data file: all_marital_reports

Overview

Valid: 112388

Invalid: 150951

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 25

End: 26

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 99

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
97	Not applicable
98	Unknown
99	Missing

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

Number of current spouses

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: spousenum (table[s]: css_sei)
variable: spoucur (table[s]: cen_individ, crs_cenm)

replace spousenum=spoucur if spousenum==.

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