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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
Metadata
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Sep 03, 2025
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  • MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat
  • MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat

Occupation (1-digit) (MX2020A_OCC1)

Data file: MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 329
End: 330
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">Continue if the person is 12 years of age or older</span></p>

<p>32. Name of occupation: What was [the respondent]'s occupation last week? For example: electrician, elementary school teacher, fruit seller, construction worker, auto mechanic</p>
<div class="i1">____ Write down textually</div>
Categories
Value Category
01 Officials, directors, and managers
02 Professionals and technicians
03 Auxiliary workers in administrative activities
04 Traders, sales employees and sales agents
05 Workers in personal and surveillance services
06 Workers in agricultural, livestock, forestry, hunting and fishing activities
07 Craft workers, in construction and other trades
08 Industrial machinery operators, assemblers, drivers and transport drivers
09 Workers in elementary and support activities
99 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">32. Occupation name and 33. Tasks</span>
<br />These questions allow us to know the occupation of the people who worked the week before the interview.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's occupation (1-digit SINCO code).
Universe
Mexico 2020: Persons age 12+ who had a job last week [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work: Occupation Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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