Cleaned spouse and marriage data

Malawi

Get Microdata

Reference ID

MWI-MEIRU-SPOUSELINKS-2002-v01

Producer(s)

Professor Amelia (Mia) Crampin

Collections

Karonga HDSS Combined / Harmonized Datasets

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Nov 14, 2025

Last modified

Nov 19, 2025

Page views

6818

Downloads

108

Wife's reason for res ep start/stop (D) (w_rsn)

Data file: all_spouse_pairs_full

Overview

Valid: 36166

Invalid: 160237

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 107

End: 107

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 7

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category	Cases
1	Baseline/present	11079	30.6%
2	Birth/Death	343	0.9%
3	Migr - marriage	9618	26.6%
4	Migr - Div/Sep	3888	10.8%
5	Migr - educ	97	0.3%
6	Migr - work	6091	16.8%
7	Migr - other	5050	14%
Sysmiss		160237

Description

Definition

Wife's reason for res ep start/stop

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: rsnmovecenm (table[s]: crs_residency_episodes_clean_poly [derived table])
variable: rsnmovedep (table[s]: crs_residency_episodes_clean_poly [derived table])

<the rsnmove variables from crs_residency_episodes_clean_poly are first renamed to w_stoprsn/h_startrsn etc.>
la def strsn 1 "Baseline/present" 2 "Birth/Death" 3 "Migr - marriage" 4 "Migr - Div/Sep" 5 "Migr - educ" 6 "Migr - work" 7 "Migr - other"
foreach s in w h {
foreach st in start stop {
gen `s'_`st'rsn=1 if `s'_`st'type==1
replace `s'_`st'rsn=2 if `s'_`st'type==2
replace `s'_`st'rsn=3 if (`s'_`st'type==3 | `s'_`st'type==4) & `s'_rsn`st'==1
replace `s'_`st'rsn=4 if (`s'_`st'type==3 | `s'_`st'type==4) & `s'_rsn`st'==2
replace `s'_`st'rsn=5 if (`s'_`st'type==3 | `s'_`st'type==4) & `s'_rsn`st'==3
replace `s'_`st'rsn=6 if (`s'_`st'type==3 | `s'_`st'type==4) & `s'_rsn`st'==4
replace `s'_`st'rsn=7 if (`s'_`st'type==3 | `s'_`st'type==4) & (`s'_rsn`st'==5 | `s'_rsn`st'==.)
la val `s'_`st'rsn strsn
}
}

Back to Catalog