National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2009
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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- MEX2009_LFS-Q1-H-H.dat
- MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat
Business has stalls or establishments (or, if applicable, vehicles) (MX2009H_P3F1)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
542
End:
542
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Extended)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">III. Employment information</span></p>
<p>3f. How many stands or establishments (or in the case, vehicles) make up this business or company?</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options and circle the answer mentioned by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 Only one<br />[] 2 More than one</div><div class="i2">How many? _ _</div><div class="i1">[] 3 He/she does not have any stands or establishments (or vehicles)<br />[] 9 Doesn't know</div>
<p><span class="h1">III. Employment information</span></p>
<p>3f. How many stands or establishments (or in the case, vehicles) make up this business or company?</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options and circle the answer mentioned by the respondent)<br /><br />[] 1 Only one<br />[] 2 More than one</div><div class="i2">How many? _ _</div><div class="i1">[] 3 He/she does not have any stands or establishments (or vehicles)<br />[] 9 Doesn't know</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 1 | Only one |
| 2 | More than one |
| 3 | Has no stalls or establishments (or vehicles) |
| 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">7.5 Battery III. Work context</span>
<br />Starting with this battery of questions and up to six, the information you obtain will refer exclusively to the main job of the employed population, such that it could have been performed during the reference week or they could have been absent from it, but with return assured.</p>
<p>The purpose of this battery of questions is to identify the person's position or job, their title in the occupation, the size of the economic unit and how long they have been on the job, among others. In addition, based on title in the occupation, the purpose will be, in the case of:</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent workers, identify their level of autonomy and the line of their activity.<br />- Subordinate workers, identify whether they have a written contract and access to employment benefits, as well as the form in which they accessed their job.</div><span class="em">Question 3f</span>
<br />This question is asked to independent workers who employ people, in order to find out in how many establishments or fixed addresses they operate their economic unit when conducting their main business or activity.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />As you can see, practically all of battery of questions 3 focuses on identifying the work conditions of the interviewee, with the exception of this question in particular and 3q, which seek to properly characterize the economic unit, identifying whether they have stands or establishments to conduct their economic</p>
<p>activity and identifying the size of the establishment based on the number of workers who work in the establishment in which the interviewee is working.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is important to state that this question does not intend, strictly speaking, to learn the physical characteristics or equipment found in the establishments, it only seeks to identify in which establishments, addresses or fixed locations an economic unit operates in the performance of its principal activity. The count should include auxiliary establishments, speaking of those economic units that are formally established, if counting this type of establishment.</p>
<p>Exceptionally, in the case of economic units that require the use of vehicular units to perform the economic activity, these are counted only if they are used to conduct the principal activity: transportation, sale or service, regardless of whether or not the vehicles are moved from one place to another. This case is explained in further detail below.</p>
<p>Exclude economic units:</p>
<div class="i1">- That operate on the street, loading merchandise or products in their arms or hands: a merchant who sells gum in transportation lines, a tuna vendor who carries their merchandise in buckets.<br />- That are performed in the field: a collector of lechuguilla or medicinal herbs.<br />- That are performed on their own home, with or without a special installation.<br />- That lacking a premises, are located by their customers through a personal or home telephone number or going to their home, to hire their services.<br />- Having an establishment. Consider an independent worker to have an establishment to conduct their economic activity if:<br />- They are the owner of the site.<br />- It is available to them by lease.<br />- If they have one in the form of a loan. In this case, only if said establishment is used exclusively by the economic unit to which it is owned; if it is shared with another economic unit, do not consider the worker to have an establishment.<br />- It has independent access from the street, in the case of those economic units that are located within a property or lot of a private home, such that the space within the home for the economic unit is clearly delimited.</div><p>Consider cases like the following to be an establishment:</p>
<div class="i1">- Any typical building such as a warehouse, stable, barn, business premises, office, thermoelectric plant, water treatment plant.<br />- A site where they can offer their services, although these services (interior decorating, exterminator, locksmith, computer repair or maintenance) are performed in the home of their customers.<br />- An establishment to carry out the management or storage of their machinery, material or vehicles, in the case of those economic units that are dedicated to building any construction site.<br />- Spaces or facilities lacking a traditional building: Dam or pond for raising aquatic species; mine ("open pit or pit"), plot, paddock, wire mesh fencing in the case of used auto lots.<br />- Fixed, semi-fixed or improvised stands. Each of these spaces is defined below.</div><div class="i1">- Fixed stand. Structure built of aluminum, iron, sheet metal, wood, wire mesh or other relatively light materials, which are fixed to the ground in a public space (sidewalk, pavement in a commercial center, park, public plaza) or open air (lot or property), such that they remain in the same site day and night, where an economic activity is performed : shelving unit, stand, kiosks, news and magazine stands, display cases.<br />[Omitted figures]<br /><br />Exclude from this option those who work on fixed stands that depend on clearly established economic units, such as banks, agencies or dealers of vehicles, real estate, telephone companies.<br /><br />- Semi-fixed stand. Structure of any light material that is installed in a public space (street, open air market, commercial plaza). The main characteristics of this type of stand is that it is generally installed at the start of the workday and removed at the end of the same day. Its removal is relatively simple because</div><div class="i1">it is not fixed to the ground: demonstration modular units and portable exhibits, mechanical kits, tubular stations.<br /><br />[Omitted figures]<br /><br />- Improvised stand. Rudimentary installation not fixed to the ground that is generally placed in the same public space to conduct an economic activity.<br /><br />[Omitted figure]</div><div class="i1">- Vehicles on which the main activity is conducted. These are considered establishments, only and exclusively if the activity that characterizes or distinguishes an economic unit is conducted on them. Regardless of the line of business to which the economic unit is engaged in.</div><p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Vehicle is understood as any mobile unit, with or without a motor, such as: ship, cargo or passenger truck, pickup truck, wagon, motor boat or boat, trailer, tricycle.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Transporting people in taxis<br />- Selling fruits and vegetables on a cart<br />- Photographic service inside a truck<br />- Fishing from a motor boat<br />- Transporting tourists on tricycles<br />- Moving services in a truck</div><p>[Omitted figures]</p>
<p>Exclude from the count those vehicles that are only used as internal support for the economic unit to conduct its main activity.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- A chain of dry cleaners that, in addition to premises and administrative offices, has vehicles to deliver the clothes.<br />- A store selling construction material that also has vehicles for distribution.</div><p>Also exclude from the count the spaces that are only used to shelter vehicular units that serve as support for the performance of an economic unit.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Parking garages that are rented by the owner of a furniture store to shelter their vehicles at the end of the work day.<br />- Parking garages that are rented by a taxi driver to shelter their vehicular units.<br />- Space inside a parking lot to shelter carts that are used to sell food.</div><p>The following table illustrates, more concretely, the cases in which the vehicles should be counted, and when they should not.</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>It is important to emphasize that the same line or type of business could be comprised of various establishments.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="i1">- An independent worker could have various newsstands; and another, several taco stands; and, one more, different stands to sell glasses.<br /><br />In the cited examples, it is evident that each owner is dedicated to the same line of business, although they are performed at different locations, in which case you should count all the establishments that comprise the network.<br /><br />- Work from home. In the case of economic units that are located on the property or lot of a private home, consider it to have an establishment only if the space allocated to perform the economic activity has a separate entrance from the residential space itself. If the entry is common, consider them not to have an establishment, even if they have special facilities.</div><p>The following images illustrate in which cases an economic unit is considered to be performed in a private home, based on whether or not it is an establishment.</p>
<p>In this image, the economic unit (seamstress) does not have a site, as the access to the economic unit is the same as that of the home.</p>
<p>[Omitted figures]</p>
<p>According to the foregoing, consider an independent worker to lack an establishment, site or stand, if they perform their economic activity:</p>
<div class="i1">- Walking in public spaces.<br />- In the homes of customers and lacking a site where their services are hired. For example, an electrician, exterminator, musician, clown, plumber, vendor of catalog products whose clients must come to their home, they must visit the clients or their clients must call on the telephone to hire their services.<br />- In a loaned space within an establishment or site and in which the independent worker is not responsible for said space, but in which they operate at the same time together with another economic unit (manager or owner of the establishment).</div><p>Instructions:
<br />- Circle the respective option based on the following criteria:</p>
<div class="i1">1. Only one<br />- Independent workers who only have one establishment or vehicle to perform their main economic activity.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A taxi driver who has only one vehicle.<br />- A worker who only has one site in which to offer their Internet services.<br />- A taco vendor who only works on a corner (on a semi-fixed stand).<br />- A public accountant in whose firm they also sell jewelry.<br />- A fruit and vegetable vendor who exhibits and promotes the sale of their products on a cart pulled by a donkey.<br />- A person who, on the same fixed stand, in the morning prepares and sells food and in the afternoon sells clothing.<br />- Those who work inside their own homes, as long as the access to the business has a separate entrance from that to the home.</div><div class="i1">2. More than one<br />- Independent workers who have two or more establishments to perform their main economic activity. If you circle this option, ask how many establishments the economic unit operates and how many serve as support to achieve their objectives. Enter the number they indicate.</div><div class="i1">2. More than one<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A taxi driver who has three vehicles.<br />- A worker who only has two sites in which they provide their Internet services.<br />- A taco vendor who has five semi-fixed stands distributed in different parts of the city.<br />- An economic unit that has two small stores (premises), a warehouse and an office, has a total of four establishments.</div><div class="i1">3. Has no stand or establishment (or vehicle)<br />- Walking workers who use bags, baskets, buckets, with which they carry and transport the products they offer, walking in different public spaces.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A vendor of scrubbers for personal hygiene who carries a kind of necklace hanging around the neck.<br />- The cigarette vendor who exhibits and promotes his products in a box.<br />- The person who carries the tuna they are selling in a bucket.<br />- Those who don't have premises where their services can be hired and based on the type of trade or profession they have, go to the homes of their clients, as in the case of decorators, exterminators, clowns, gardeners, domestic servants, nurses.<br />- Independent workers who work in their own home, whose access to the business is the same as that to the home:<br />- A carpenter who has his workshop on the patio of his house.<br />- A seamstress who has her sewing machine in the living room of her house.<br />- A laundress who uses the washing machine and laundry room in her home.<br />- Sequence to follow. Regardless of the information recorded, continue with question 3g.</div>
<br />Starting with this battery of questions and up to six, the information you obtain will refer exclusively to the main job of the employed population, such that it could have been performed during the reference week or they could have been absent from it, but with return assured.</p>
<p>The purpose of this battery of questions is to identify the person's position or job, their title in the occupation, the size of the economic unit and how long they have been on the job, among others. In addition, based on title in the occupation, the purpose will be, in the case of:</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent workers, identify their level of autonomy and the line of their activity.<br />- Subordinate workers, identify whether they have a written contract and access to employment benefits, as well as the form in which they accessed their job.</div><span class="em">Question 3f</span>
<br />This question is asked to independent workers who employ people, in order to find out in how many establishments or fixed addresses they operate their economic unit when conducting their main business or activity.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />As you can see, practically all of battery of questions 3 focuses on identifying the work conditions of the interviewee, with the exception of this question in particular and 3q, which seek to properly characterize the economic unit, identifying whether they have stands or establishments to conduct their economic</p>
<p>activity and identifying the size of the establishment based on the number of workers who work in the establishment in which the interviewee is working.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is important to state that this question does not intend, strictly speaking, to learn the physical characteristics or equipment found in the establishments, it only seeks to identify in which establishments, addresses or fixed locations an economic unit operates in the performance of its principal activity. The count should include auxiliary establishments, speaking of those economic units that are formally established, if counting this type of establishment.</p>
<p>Exceptionally, in the case of economic units that require the use of vehicular units to perform the economic activity, these are counted only if they are used to conduct the principal activity: transportation, sale or service, regardless of whether or not the vehicles are moved from one place to another. This case is explained in further detail below.</p>
<p>Exclude economic units:</p>
<div class="i1">- That operate on the street, loading merchandise or products in their arms or hands: a merchant who sells gum in transportation lines, a tuna vendor who carries their merchandise in buckets.<br />- That are performed in the field: a collector of lechuguilla or medicinal herbs.<br />- That are performed on their own home, with or without a special installation.<br />- That lacking a premises, are located by their customers through a personal or home telephone number or going to their home, to hire their services.<br />- Having an establishment. Consider an independent worker to have an establishment to conduct their economic activity if:<br />- They are the owner of the site.<br />- It is available to them by lease.<br />- If they have one in the form of a loan. In this case, only if said establishment is used exclusively by the economic unit to which it is owned; if it is shared with another economic unit, do not consider the worker to have an establishment.<br />- It has independent access from the street, in the case of those economic units that are located within a property or lot of a private home, such that the space within the home for the economic unit is clearly delimited.</div><p>Consider cases like the following to be an establishment:</p>
<div class="i1">- Any typical building such as a warehouse, stable, barn, business premises, office, thermoelectric plant, water treatment plant.<br />- A site where they can offer their services, although these services (interior decorating, exterminator, locksmith, computer repair or maintenance) are performed in the home of their customers.<br />- An establishment to carry out the management or storage of their machinery, material or vehicles, in the case of those economic units that are dedicated to building any construction site.<br />- Spaces or facilities lacking a traditional building: Dam or pond for raising aquatic species; mine ("open pit or pit"), plot, paddock, wire mesh fencing in the case of used auto lots.<br />- Fixed, semi-fixed or improvised stands. Each of these spaces is defined below.</div><div class="i1">- Fixed stand. Structure built of aluminum, iron, sheet metal, wood, wire mesh or other relatively light materials, which are fixed to the ground in a public space (sidewalk, pavement in a commercial center, park, public plaza) or open air (lot or property), such that they remain in the same site day and night, where an economic activity is performed : shelving unit, stand, kiosks, news and magazine stands, display cases.<br />[Omitted figures]<br /><br />Exclude from this option those who work on fixed stands that depend on clearly established economic units, such as banks, agencies or dealers of vehicles, real estate, telephone companies.<br /><br />- Semi-fixed stand. Structure of any light material that is installed in a public space (street, open air market, commercial plaza). The main characteristics of this type of stand is that it is generally installed at the start of the workday and removed at the end of the same day. Its removal is relatively simple because</div><div class="i1">it is not fixed to the ground: demonstration modular units and portable exhibits, mechanical kits, tubular stations.<br /><br />[Omitted figures]<br /><br />- Improvised stand. Rudimentary installation not fixed to the ground that is generally placed in the same public space to conduct an economic activity.<br /><br />[Omitted figure]</div><div class="i1">- Vehicles on which the main activity is conducted. These are considered establishments, only and exclusively if the activity that characterizes or distinguishes an economic unit is conducted on them. Regardless of the line of business to which the economic unit is engaged in.</div><p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Vehicle is understood as any mobile unit, with or without a motor, such as: ship, cargo or passenger truck, pickup truck, wagon, motor boat or boat, trailer, tricycle.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Transporting people in taxis<br />- Selling fruits and vegetables on a cart<br />- Photographic service inside a truck<br />- Fishing from a motor boat<br />- Transporting tourists on tricycles<br />- Moving services in a truck</div><p>[Omitted figures]</p>
<p>Exclude from the count those vehicles that are only used as internal support for the economic unit to conduct its main activity.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- A chain of dry cleaners that, in addition to premises and administrative offices, has vehicles to deliver the clothes.<br />- A store selling construction material that also has vehicles for distribution.</div><p>Also exclude from the count the spaces that are only used to shelter vehicular units that serve as support for the performance of an economic unit.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Parking garages that are rented by the owner of a furniture store to shelter their vehicles at the end of the work day.<br />- Parking garages that are rented by a taxi driver to shelter their vehicular units.<br />- Space inside a parking lot to shelter carts that are used to sell food.</div><p>The following table illustrates, more concretely, the cases in which the vehicles should be counted, and when they should not.</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>It is important to emphasize that the same line or type of business could be comprised of various establishments.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="i1">- An independent worker could have various newsstands; and another, several taco stands; and, one more, different stands to sell glasses.<br /><br />In the cited examples, it is evident that each owner is dedicated to the same line of business, although they are performed at different locations, in which case you should count all the establishments that comprise the network.<br /><br />- Work from home. In the case of economic units that are located on the property or lot of a private home, consider it to have an establishment only if the space allocated to perform the economic activity has a separate entrance from the residential space itself. If the entry is common, consider them not to have an establishment, even if they have special facilities.</div><p>The following images illustrate in which cases an economic unit is considered to be performed in a private home, based on whether or not it is an establishment.</p>
<p>In this image, the economic unit (seamstress) does not have a site, as the access to the economic unit is the same as that of the home.</p>
<p>[Omitted figures]</p>
<p>According to the foregoing, consider an independent worker to lack an establishment, site or stand, if they perform their economic activity:</p>
<div class="i1">- Walking in public spaces.<br />- In the homes of customers and lacking a site where their services are hired. For example, an electrician, exterminator, musician, clown, plumber, vendor of catalog products whose clients must come to their home, they must visit the clients or their clients must call on the telephone to hire their services.<br />- In a loaned space within an establishment or site and in which the independent worker is not responsible for said space, but in which they operate at the same time together with another economic unit (manager or owner of the establishment).</div><p>Instructions:
<br />- Circle the respective option based on the following criteria:</p>
<div class="i1">1. Only one<br />- Independent workers who only have one establishment or vehicle to perform their main economic activity.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A taxi driver who has only one vehicle.<br />- A worker who only has one site in which to offer their Internet services.<br />- A taco vendor who only works on a corner (on a semi-fixed stand).<br />- A public accountant in whose firm they also sell jewelry.<br />- A fruit and vegetable vendor who exhibits and promotes the sale of their products on a cart pulled by a donkey.<br />- A person who, on the same fixed stand, in the morning prepares and sells food and in the afternoon sells clothing.<br />- Those who work inside their own homes, as long as the access to the business has a separate entrance from that to the home.</div><div class="i1">2. More than one<br />- Independent workers who have two or more establishments to perform their main economic activity. If you circle this option, ask how many establishments the economic unit operates and how many serve as support to achieve their objectives. Enter the number they indicate.</div><div class="i1">2. More than one<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A taxi driver who has three vehicles.<br />- A worker who only has two sites in which they provide their Internet services.<br />- A taco vendor who has five semi-fixed stands distributed in different parts of the city.<br />- An economic unit that has two small stores (premises), a warehouse and an office, has a total of four establishments.</div><div class="i1">3. Has no stand or establishment (or vehicle)<br />- Walking workers who use bags, baskets, buckets, with which they carry and transport the products they offer, walking in different public spaces.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A vendor of scrubbers for personal hygiene who carries a kind of necklace hanging around the neck.<br />- The cigarette vendor who exhibits and promotes his products in a box.<br />- The person who carries the tuna they are selling in a bucket.<br />- Those who don't have premises where their services can be hired and based on the type of trade or profession they have, go to the homes of their clients, as in the case of decorators, exterminators, clowns, gardeners, domestic servants, nurses.<br />- Independent workers who work in their own home, whose access to the business is the same as that to the home:<br />- A carpenter who has his workshop on the patio of his house.<br />- A seamstress who has her sewing machine in the living room of her house.<br />- A laundress who uses the washing machine and laundry room in her home.<br />- Sequence to follow. Regardless of the information recorded, continue with question 3g.</div>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates if the respondent's business has stalls or establishments (or, if applicable, vehicles).
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q1 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were self-employed and hired workers
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |