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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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data type of date1 (D) (datatype1)

Data file: marital_status_episodes

Overview

Valid: 134177
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 20
End: 20
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 6
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Report 87850
65.5%
2 Residency 19294
14.4%
3 Both 0
0%
4 Death 1451
1.1%
5 ep censor 21388
15.9%
6 ep split 4194
3.1%
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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
variable: datatypeM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: datatypeFM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: datatypeSM (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])
variable: datatypeS (table[s]: all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised [derived table])

This variable is taken from the all_spouse_pairs_clean_summarised and the all_marital_reports datasets, depending on which record is retained for the episode, if the episode starts or ends due to episode censor or split, this variable reflects this.
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