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Population and Housing Census 2020 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2020
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MEX_2020_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Dwelling paid for (MX2020A_DWPAID)

Data file: MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 294
End: 294
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">I. Characteristics of the housing unit</span></p>

<p>27. Debt: Is this housing unit:</p>
<div class="i1">Read the options until you get an affirmative answer and circle one code only<br /><br />[] 1 Fully paid for?<br />[] 2 Being paid for?<br />[] 3 Did you stop paying for it?<br />[] 8 Not sure</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes, is totally paid
2 Yes, is being paid
3 No, stopped paying for it
7 Don't know
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h1">15. Extended questionnaire</span>
<br />This section of the questionnaire contains the questions you must apply in the households you have registered as: Single house on the land, house sharing land with other(s); duplex house; apartment in a building; housing unit in neighborhood or tenement and housing unit in the rooftop room of a building. That is, with classes 1 to 6 of private housing unit class.</p>

<p><span class="ital">27. Debt</span>
<br />This question identifies whether the housing unit owner currently has any debts due to having applied for a loan, credit, or financing to buy or build the housing unit.</p>

<p>Read the question mentioning the answer options and record the corresponding code.</p>

<p>It is considered to be fully paid if the housing unit owner applied for credit, financing, or a loan, but has already paid it off.</p>

<p>It is being paid for, if the owner obtained credit, financing, or a loan to buy or build the housing unit and is currently paying to a public or private institution periodically (for instance: INFONAVIT, FOVISSSTE, PEMEX, bank) to a relative, friend or lender.</p>

<p>It was defaulted on if the owner obtained credit, financing, or a loan to purchase or build the housing unit and is not currently paying periodic payments.</p>

<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 271]</span></p>

<p>If they tell you that they have been temporarily (between one and three months) unable to make payments, mark the answer It is being paid for.</p>

<p>The debt question is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>

<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the ownership of the dwelling.
Universe
Mexico 2020: Private dwellings built for habitation, which were purchased or built by any household member through a credit [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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