Cleaned spouse and marriage data

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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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Date known to be married with residency data (D) (rmardate)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 33259

Type: Discrete

Start: 87

End: 96

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: character

Description

Definition

Date known to be married with residency data

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

<couple are assumed to be married according to residency data if date is the start of a co-resident episode, or if the reason for the end of episode is not birth/death nor divorce:>
gen rmardate=rdate if type==2 | (type==1 & w_rsn~=2 & w_rsn~=4 & h_rsn~=2 & h_rsn~=4)

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