Population and Housing Census 2020 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2020
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Reference ID
MEX_2020_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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- Data files
- MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat
- MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat
Industry (2-digits) (MX2020A_IND2)
Data file: MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
354
End:
356
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
38. Business, company, or workplace: Where did [the respondent] work last week:</p>
<div class="i1">Circle only one code or write the place<br /><br />[] 1 Agricultural field (crop)<br />[] 2 Elementary school<br />[] 3 House construction<br />[] 4 Restaurant or small diner [<span class="lang">Fonda</span>]<br />[] 5 Grocery store<br />[] 6 On the street or roadway<br />[] 7 At own home<br />[] 8 In someone else's home<br />[] 9 Other place (write down textually) ____</div><p>39. Activity of business, company, or workplace: What activity does the business, company, or place where [the respondent] worked do: For example: making wooden furniture, making brooms, repairing cars, selling used clothes, assembling TVs.</p>
<div class="i1">Write down textually ____</div>
<div class="i1">Circle only one code or write the place<br /><br />[] 1 Agricultural field (crop)<br />[] 2 Elementary school<br />[] 3 House construction<br />[] 4 Restaurant or small diner [<span class="lang">Fonda</span>]<br />[] 5 Grocery store<br />[] 6 On the street or roadway<br />[] 7 At own home<br />[] 8 In someone else's home<br />[] 9 Other place (write down textually) ____</div><p>39. Activity of business, company, or workplace: What activity does the business, company, or place where [the respondent] worked do: For example: making wooden furniture, making brooms, repairing cars, selling used clothes, assembling TVs.</p>
<div class="i1">Write down textually ____</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 011 | Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting |
| 021 | Mining |
| 022 | Utilities |
| 023 | Construction |
| 030 | Manufacturing |
| 043 | Wholesale trade |
| 046 | Retail trade |
| 048 | Transportation, postal activities, and warehousing |
| 051 | Information in mass media |
| 052 | Finance and insurance |
| 053 | Real estate rental and leasing |
| 054 | Professional, scientific, and technical activities |
| 055 | Corporate |
| 056 | Business support services, waste management and remediation activities |
| 061 | Educational services |
| 062 | Health care and social assistance |
| 071 | Arts, entertainment, and recreation |
| 072 | Accommodation and food services |
| 081 | Other services except government activities |
| 093 | Legislative, governmental, justice administration and international and extraterritorial organizations activities |
| 998 | Unknown |
| 999 | 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="h2">15.3 Section III. People characteristics</span></p>
<p>In this section, information is obtained for each of the people living in the housing unit.</p>
<p>Before requesting data for each resident, copy the details from Section II. List people and general data, their names, gender, and age, and write them down in the spaces provided. Do not forget to correct the person number when using more than one questionnaire.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>For the respondent to know who to provide the information about, start with the sentence: "Now I'm going to ask you about...", and mention the name of the person you previously wrote down.</p>
<p>Apply questions 1 through 11 for all the people who are habitual residents, including children, as well as elderly people.</p>
<p><span class="em">38. Business, company, or workplace and 39. Activity of the business, company, or workplace</span></p>
<p>These questions identify both the business, company or workplace where people worked the week prior to the interview, as well as the activities that are performed there.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>Question 38. Business, company, or workplace identifies the place where the person worked.</p>
<p>Read the question only when the answer is exactly the same as one of the options from codes 1. Agricultural field (crop) to 8. In the housing unit of another person, circle the appropriate one; otherwise, select code 9.</p>
<p>Another place and write down the answer on the line textually. Do not write abbreviations, or make translations, assumptions, or reinterpretations.</p>
<p>Some people do not have a fixed place to work; in these cases, consider the following:</p>
<div class="i1">- If they are self-employed, record the most frequent place; for example: the street, street market, door-to-door, outside a school, or in other people's homes.<br />- If they are employed by a company, but their work is performed on the street, record the name of the business or company they work for.</div><p>Once the name of the business, company, or workplace has been identified, ask question 39. Activity of the business, company, or workplace, which allows knowing what activities are performed in the business, company, establishment, or workplace of the person; that is, to know what is done, what is sold, what is transported, what is grown, what is extracted, what is produced or manufactured, what service is offered or what is built. Record the stated answer verbatim.</p>
<p>Do not translate or reinterpret.</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 381]</span></p>
<p>If the answer is broad because what is stated does not allow us to know and identify the specific activity carried out in the company, business, or workplace, ask for more details.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>When you have already obtained the name of the workplace and the performed activity is obvious, just confirm it with the respondent.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>In cases where the person was self-employed and in question 38. Business, company, or place of work you registered option 6. On the street or public road, for answers such as "in the street", "from door to door", and "in other people's houses", record what the person did in question 39.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 382]</span></p>
<p>The question business, company, or place of work is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: images with text]</p>
<p>The question business activity, company, or place of work is shown in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]
<p>In this section, information is obtained for each of the people living in the housing unit.</p>
<p>Before requesting data for each resident, copy the details from Section II. List people and general data, their names, gender, and age, and write them down in the spaces provided. Do not forget to correct the person number when using more than one questionnaire.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>For the respondent to know who to provide the information about, start with the sentence: "Now I'm going to ask you about...", and mention the name of the person you previously wrote down.</p>
<p>Apply questions 1 through 11 for all the people who are habitual residents, including children, as well as elderly people.</p>
<p><span class="em">38. Business, company, or workplace and 39. Activity of the business, company, or workplace</span></p>
<p>These questions identify both the business, company or workplace where people worked the week prior to the interview, as well as the activities that are performed there.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>Question 38. Business, company, or workplace identifies the place where the person worked.</p>
<p>Read the question only when the answer is exactly the same as one of the options from codes 1. Agricultural field (crop) to 8. In the housing unit of another person, circle the appropriate one; otherwise, select code 9.</p>
<p>Another place and write down the answer on the line textually. Do not write abbreviations, or make translations, assumptions, or reinterpretations.</p>
<p>Some people do not have a fixed place to work; in these cases, consider the following:</p>
<div class="i1">- If they are self-employed, record the most frequent place; for example: the street, street market, door-to-door, outside a school, or in other people's homes.<br />- If they are employed by a company, but their work is performed on the street, record the name of the business or company they work for.</div><p>Once the name of the business, company, or workplace has been identified, ask question 39. Activity of the business, company, or workplace, which allows knowing what activities are performed in the business, company, establishment, or workplace of the person; that is, to know what is done, what is sold, what is transported, what is grown, what is extracted, what is produced or manufactured, what service is offered or what is built. Record the stated answer verbatim.</p>
<p>Do not translate or reinterpret.</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 381]</span></p>
<p>If the answer is broad because what is stated does not allow us to know and identify the specific activity carried out in the company, business, or workplace, ask for more details.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>When you have already obtained the name of the workplace and the performed activity is obvious, just confirm it with the respondent.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p>In cases where the person was self-employed and in question 38. Business, company, or place of work you registered option 6. On the street or public road, for answers such as "in the street", "from door to door", and "in other people's houses", record what the person did in question 39.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 382]</span></p>
<p>The question business, company, or place of work is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: images with text]</p>
<p>The question business activity, company, or place of work is shown in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's job industry (2-digit NAICS code).
Universe
Mexico 2020: Persons age 12+ who are working [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work: Industry Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |