How to Calculate the respondents marital status (Married and widowed) using relationship Relationship of person to household head

[Babul Hossain]

Hello, everyone
I am having a cross-sectional data on the relationship of the person to the household head. Can I find out respondents' marital status (Married and widowed) from this information?

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input byte cv021_1
 1
 5
 6
 1
 6
 5
 1
 1
 7
 8
 6
 2
 1
 6
 1
 1
 6
 7
 1
 1
 2
 1
 6
 8
 2
 6
 6
10
 6
 6
 2
 1
 1
 8
 6
 6
 6
 1
 6
 8
 8
 1
 2
 1
 6
 6
 6
 6
 6
 5
 1
 1
 6
 1
 1
 1
 2
 6
 7
 1
 1
 6
 6
 1
 1
 6
 1
 1
 8
 1
 6
 7
 6
 7
 1
 8
 1
 6
 6
 6
 2
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 6
 1
 6
 8
 1
 1
 1
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 1
 6
 1
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 6
11
 6
 6
 2
end
label values cv021_1 _vl310_cv
label def _vl310_cv 1 "1 Spouse", modify
label def _vl310_cv 2 "2 Son/daughter (Biological)", modify
label def _vl310_cv 5 "5 Grandchild", modify
label def _vl310_cv 6 "6 Parent", modify
label def _vl310_cv 7 "7 Parent-in-law", modify
label def _vl310_cv 8 "8 Brother or sister", modify
label def _vl310_cv 10 "10 Niece or nephew", modify
label def _vl310_cv 11 "11 Grandparents", modify

[Clyde Schechter]

This data is strange. There is no relationship category corresponding to the head of household him/herself? How is that possible? And there is nothing to identify who belongs to the same household? I've never seen household survey data like that.

Even if there were a variable identifying households, and another category of cv021_1 identifying the head of household, the only people whose marital status could be discerned from this data would be the head and, if the head is married, his or her spouse. For the children, grandhildren, parents, grandparents, siblings, in-laws, and nieces and nephews, there would be no way to determine if they are marriedbased only on these variables.