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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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Property title (MX2020A_TITLE)

Data file: MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 286
End: 286
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

<p>24. Deed or title: Does this housing unit have legal documents or title deeds:</p>
<div class="i1">Read the options until you get an affirmative answer and circle one code only<br /><br />[] 1 In the name of the owner or proprietor?<br />[] 2 In the name of another person?<br />[] 3 Does it not have a title deed?<br />[] 8 Not sure</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Title under name of owner or proprietor
2 Title under name of someone else
3 Does not have title
8 Does not know
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="em">X. Tenure and acquisition of the housing unit</span></p>

<p><span class="ital">23. Tenure</span>
<br />The question distinguishes whether the owner or proprietor lives in the housing unit, whether the occupants pay rent if it belongs to a relative or it is loaned.</p>

<p>Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.</p>

<p>The person who owns the property lives there. It means that the owner is a habitual resident of the housing unit, even if they do not have documents proving their ownership. It does not matter if you have a debt or mortgage.</p>

<p>The rent is paid. When any of the occupants pay rent or rent for occupying the housing unit.</p>

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

<p>It belongs to a relative or they loan them the housing unit. If the respondent states that it belongs to their spouse, child, parent, sibling, or other relative or friend who resides in another housing unit; including housing units that are loaned by a company or an institution where one of the occupants works or when the owner has asked them to take care of the housing unit.</p>

<p>They reside in it in another situation. It encompasses cases of housing units in litigation, intestate, occupied without the owner's permission, invaded, or any other different situation.</p>

<p>If they respond that the owner is deceased, ask the respondent to state whether any of the people living there are currently considered the owner or are in another situation, by reading the rest of the options.</p>

<p>If they state that the housing unit is owned by the owner who lives there, but the land is not, record the first option The owner lives here.</p>

<p><span class="pg">[p. 264]</span></p>

<p>If the answer is rent is paid, It belongs to a relative or the housing unit is loaned, or They reside in it in another situation, go to Section II. List of people and general data; otherwise, continue with question 24. deed or title.</p>

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

<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether the household has a property title.
Universe
Mexico 2020: Private dwellings occupied by owner or proprietor [discrepancies: none]

concept

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