National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2009
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MEX_2009_LFS-Q1_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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- Data files
- MEX2009_LFS-Q1-H-H.dat
- MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat
Activity status (MX2009H_P2E)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
517
End:
517
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Extended)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">II. Unemployment</span></p>
<p>2e. Is [the respondent]...?</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options and circle the answer indicated by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 Temporarily out of their normal work? (skip to 9f)<br />[] 2 Pensioned or retired from their job?<br />[] 3 A student?<br />[] 4 A stay-at-home partner?<br />[] 5 Someone with a mental or physical disability which permanently prevents them from working? (skip to 2h)<br />[] 6 Other (specify) ____<br />[] 9 Doesn't know</div>
<p><span class="h1">II. Unemployment</span></p>
<p>2e. Is [the respondent]...?</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options and circle the answer indicated by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 Temporarily out of their normal work? (skip to 9f)<br />[] 2 Pensioned or retired from their job?<br />[] 3 A student?<br />[] 4 A stay-at-home partner?<br />[] 5 Someone with a mental or physical disability which permanently prevents them from working? (skip to 2h)<br />[] 6 Other (specify) ____<br />[] 9 Doesn't know</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 1 | Temporarily absent from their activity or trade |
| 2 | Retired |
| 3 | Student |
| 4 | Dedicated to housework |
| 5 | Physical or mental limitation that prevents them from working |
| 6 | Other condition |
| 9 | Unknown |
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">7.4 Battery II. Not employees</span>
<br />The general purpose of this battery of questions is to characterize the not employed population, based on whether or not they are seeking a job and are willing to join one, and to identify if they have work experience.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2</span>
<br />This question is asked to not employed persons to find out if they tried to find a job or start an independent job and to further identify whether the search took place in the country or abroad.
<br />[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications</p>
<div class="i1">Not employed persons. People who did not work during the reference week nor did they have a job.<br />Search for work. Actions taken by not employed people to try to obtain a job or start some independent work.</div><p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2e</span>
<br />This question is asked to those who are not economically active, to find out what do they do and what is the condition of non-economic activity.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications
<br />Note that this question identifies the normal or habitual activity to which an unemployed person is dedicated, at least up to the reference week, not to the type of work the person started to undertake during the week the survey is conducted or which they will undertake in the future, therefore, do not accept responses such as: going to go look for work, wants to study, going on a pension, already started to work this week; in this case ask on what their time was spent, or what they did the week before the interview: homemaker, student, permanently disabled for work, marginal worker.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- If you know the information in advance, or after having read the first four options, the informant seems not to have understood the sense of the question, do not ask the questions again because you may tire the informant. In order to confirm, indicate: "Alfredo told me he spent time studying, right? or what does he do?<br />- If in the course of the interview, you detect that in the informant's judgment, a person resides in the home who has some physical or mental disability that prevents them from working for the rest of their life, do not read this question, as it could sound aggressive or hurt their feelings. Record the information according to what the interviewee says.<br />- In this question you can only circle one of the options, so if the informant says more than one, circle the one that appears first in the question. For example, if a person claims to be both a homemaker and a student, circle the option of student; if they are retired and unable to work, in this case circle option 2 of retiree.</div><p>1. A person temporarily absent from their activity or trade
<br />People who have a job but were absent during the reference week, without receiving income, but who affirm they are going to return to work after the week the survey is conducted.</p>
<p>2. Pensioner or retired from work
<br />Those who are exclusively retired from work. This does not include those who receive a pension due to their status as a widow, orphan or marital separation. To classify correctly, consider the following:</p>
<div class="i1">Retiree. Retired person who continues to receive a payment as a result of having done a job from which they retired after having completed a determined number of years worked or due to their age (55 or 60 years, based on their contract).<br />Pensioner. Person who, as compensation, is granted 75 percent of the salary they received as a worker upon definitive retirement from the economic unit due to health problems as a result of occupational diseases or accidents.</div><p>3. Student
<br />Those dedicated, as a habitual activity, to studies, even though at the time they are on vacation, sick or suspended (regardless of the reason for the suspension: bad behavior) or strike.</p>
<p>People who do not attend school, but are enrolled or completing some process to do so, and those who have concluded their academic cycle but are going to continue in the next.
<br />It is important to mention that this option includes only formal studies; to identify them, ask: what do you study? If you have doubts as to the concept of formal studies, consult the respective instructions in sections on educational characteristics of the sociodemographic questionnaire of this manual.</p>
<p>In the case of students completing the last grades of technical majors and the intermediate to upper level and for those who have recently completed a major, it will be appropriate to inquire whether during the reference period they spent time completing their social service or professional practice. Remember that for the survey, performing this type of activity is considered an economic activity.</p>
<p>4. A person dedicated to the household chores in their own household
<br />People who are habitually dedicated to household chores, such as: cleaning the home, cooking, cleaning, ironing, even if this has not been done during the reference week.</p>
<p>Those who state they care for their children or other members of their own household (the elderly, sick or children).</p>
<p>5. A person with some physical or mental limitation that prevents them from working for the rest of their life
<br />People who do not work or seek to do so because they have some physical or mental limitation (from birth or as a result of some illness or accident) which prevents them from doing any job for the rest of their life.</p>
<p>People who have some disability. If the informant indicates that the interviewee cannot work because of a limitation, respect their response even when from your perspective the limitation is not an impediment for the interviewee to perform any economic activity.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="i1">- A person who is paralyzed from the waist down could do some job with their hands, but the informant does not consider them able to work for the rest of their life.</div><p>6. Other status
<br />People who, simply, state they do not perform any activity because they don't want to, because they are old, they feel tired or because they have health problems.</p>
<p>Given responses like: is very young, unemployed, going to work, already started to work this week, is waiting for the next school year or the response of an employer, insist by asking what they did through the previous week. Classify based on the response.</p>
<p>Those who engage in marginal activities in exchange for a tip: cleaning windshields, singing, playing an instrument in public places, looking after vehicles, swallowing fire. In this case, specify the activity they are engaged in.</p>
<div class="i1">- Sequence to follow. If you circle option 1, go to question 9f; if you circle option 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9, continue with question 2f; if you circle option 5, go to question 2h.</div>
<br />The general purpose of this battery of questions is to characterize the not employed population, based on whether or not they are seeking a job and are willing to join one, and to identify if they have work experience.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2</span>
<br />This question is asked to not employed persons to find out if they tried to find a job or start an independent job and to further identify whether the search took place in the country or abroad.
<br />[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications</p>
<div class="i1">Not employed persons. People who did not work during the reference week nor did they have a job.<br />Search for work. Actions taken by not employed people to try to obtain a job or start some independent work.</div><p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2e</span>
<br />This question is asked to those who are not economically active, to find out what do they do and what is the condition of non-economic activity.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications
<br />Note that this question identifies the normal or habitual activity to which an unemployed person is dedicated, at least up to the reference week, not to the type of work the person started to undertake during the week the survey is conducted or which they will undertake in the future, therefore, do not accept responses such as: going to go look for work, wants to study, going on a pension, already started to work this week; in this case ask on what their time was spent, or what they did the week before the interview: homemaker, student, permanently disabled for work, marginal worker.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- If you know the information in advance, or after having read the first four options, the informant seems not to have understood the sense of the question, do not ask the questions again because you may tire the informant. In order to confirm, indicate: "Alfredo told me he spent time studying, right? or what does he do?<br />- If in the course of the interview, you detect that in the informant's judgment, a person resides in the home who has some physical or mental disability that prevents them from working for the rest of their life, do not read this question, as it could sound aggressive or hurt their feelings. Record the information according to what the interviewee says.<br />- In this question you can only circle one of the options, so if the informant says more than one, circle the one that appears first in the question. For example, if a person claims to be both a homemaker and a student, circle the option of student; if they are retired and unable to work, in this case circle option 2 of retiree.</div><p>1. A person temporarily absent from their activity or trade
<br />People who have a job but were absent during the reference week, without receiving income, but who affirm they are going to return to work after the week the survey is conducted.</p>
<p>2. Pensioner or retired from work
<br />Those who are exclusively retired from work. This does not include those who receive a pension due to their status as a widow, orphan or marital separation. To classify correctly, consider the following:</p>
<div class="i1">Retiree. Retired person who continues to receive a payment as a result of having done a job from which they retired after having completed a determined number of years worked or due to their age (55 or 60 years, based on their contract).<br />Pensioner. Person who, as compensation, is granted 75 percent of the salary they received as a worker upon definitive retirement from the economic unit due to health problems as a result of occupational diseases or accidents.</div><p>3. Student
<br />Those dedicated, as a habitual activity, to studies, even though at the time they are on vacation, sick or suspended (regardless of the reason for the suspension: bad behavior) or strike.</p>
<p>People who do not attend school, but are enrolled or completing some process to do so, and those who have concluded their academic cycle but are going to continue in the next.
<br />It is important to mention that this option includes only formal studies; to identify them, ask: what do you study? If you have doubts as to the concept of formal studies, consult the respective instructions in sections on educational characteristics of the sociodemographic questionnaire of this manual.</p>
<p>In the case of students completing the last grades of technical majors and the intermediate to upper level and for those who have recently completed a major, it will be appropriate to inquire whether during the reference period they spent time completing their social service or professional practice. Remember that for the survey, performing this type of activity is considered an economic activity.</p>
<p>4. A person dedicated to the household chores in their own household
<br />People who are habitually dedicated to household chores, such as: cleaning the home, cooking, cleaning, ironing, even if this has not been done during the reference week.</p>
<p>Those who state they care for their children or other members of their own household (the elderly, sick or children).</p>
<p>5. A person with some physical or mental limitation that prevents them from working for the rest of their life
<br />People who do not work or seek to do so because they have some physical or mental limitation (from birth or as a result of some illness or accident) which prevents them from doing any job for the rest of their life.</p>
<p>People who have some disability. If the informant indicates that the interviewee cannot work because of a limitation, respect their response even when from your perspective the limitation is not an impediment for the interviewee to perform any economic activity.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="i1">- A person who is paralyzed from the waist down could do some job with their hands, but the informant does not consider them able to work for the rest of their life.</div><p>6. Other status
<br />People who, simply, state they do not perform any activity because they don't want to, because they are old, they feel tired or because they have health problems.</p>
<p>Given responses like: is very young, unemployed, going to work, already started to work this week, is waiting for the next school year or the response of an employer, insist by asking what they did through the previous week. Classify based on the response.</p>
<p>Those who engage in marginal activities in exchange for a tip: cleaning windshields, singing, playing an instrument in public places, looking after vehicles, swallowing fire. In this case, specify the activity they are engaged in.</p>
<div class="i1">- Sequence to follow. If you circle option 1, go to question 9f; if you circle option 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9, continue with question 2f; if you circle option 5, go to question 2h.</div>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the respondent's activity status.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q1 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were not employed, but did not look for work within last 3 months or were not willing to work
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |