National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q1, IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2009
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Place where business activities take place (MX2009H_P4F)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q1-P-H.dat
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623
End:
624
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2
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Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Extended)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">IV. Employer characteristics</span></p>
<p>4f. So, where are this business' activities completed?</p>
<div class="i1">[First, write the response of the respondent and immediately classify it] ________<br /><br />(Listen, record, and circle the option mentioned by the respondent)</div><div class="i2">[] 01 In the field, outdoors, on board, in waterways, at sea<br />[] 02 Door-to-door or in the streets<br />[] 03 Makeshift stand<br />[] 04 On non-motorized vehicle (bicycle, tricycle, rickshaw, or boat)<br />[] 05 On a motorized vehicle (car, motorcycle, truck)<br />[] 06 At home, without a home facility<br />[] 07 At home, with a home facility<br />[] 08 At boss' home or clients' homes/workplaces<br />[] 09 Semi-permanent shop/stand<br />[] 10 Permanent shop/stand<br />[] 11 Somewhere else<br />[] 99 Doesn't know</div>
<p><span class="h1">IV. Employer characteristics</span></p>
<p>4f. So, where are this business' activities completed?</p>
<div class="i1">[First, write the response of the respondent and immediately classify it] ________<br /><br />(Listen, record, and circle the option mentioned by the respondent)</div><div class="i2">[] 01 In the field, outdoors, on board, in waterways, at sea<br />[] 02 Door-to-door or in the streets<br />[] 03 Makeshift stand<br />[] 04 On non-motorized vehicle (bicycle, tricycle, rickshaw, or boat)<br />[] 05 On a motorized vehicle (car, motorcycle, truck)<br />[] 06 At home, without a home facility<br />[] 07 At home, with a home facility<br />[] 08 At boss' home or clients' homes/workplaces<br />[] 09 Semi-permanent shop/stand<br />[] 10 Permanent shop/stand<br />[] 11 Somewhere else<br />[] 99 Doesn't know</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 01 | In agricultural field, open-air, on board, pool, or at sea |
| 02 | Traveling from house to house or on the street |
| 03 | Makeshift stall |
| 04 | By non-motorized vehicle (bicycle, tricycle, cart, boat) |
| 05 | By motorized vehicle (car, motorcycle, truck) |
| 06 | In own home without special installation |
| 07 | In own home with special installation |
| 08 | At the employer's domicile or property or in the place where the clients require it |
| 09 | Semi-fixed station |
| 10 | Fixed station |
| 11 | Another place |
| 99 | 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">7.6 Battery IV. Characteristics of the economic unit</span>
<br />The purpose of this battery of questions is to identify some important characteristics of the economic units, taking as a starting point the establishment in which the people who are employed perform their main job. Some of these characteristics are: name, proprietary sector, type of activity to which it is dedicated, the way in which it operates (whether or not it is registered under the Law of Corporations, in the case of private companies and businesses, or the way in which the public administration of this country operates), availability of premises and accounting records, as well as the geographic level in which it performs, in the case of private companies and businesses.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 4</span>
<br />This question is asked to employed persons, in order to find out if the economic unit for which they work has a name.
<br />[Omitted figure]</p>
<p><span class="ital">Name of the economic unit</span>. The trade name, business name or name with which a company, institution or business advertises itself.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 4f</span>
<br />This question is asked to employed persons who work for an independent business or activity, whether personal or family that do not have an establishment, premises or office, in order to find out the place where the economic unit conducts its activities.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:</p>
<p>It is important to keep in mind that this question is focused on identifying the place where the economic unit operates, not the place where the interviewee works. It is worth stating that the place where both the economic unit and the interviewee work may be the same.</p>
<p>The units classified here are characterized, mainly, by their lack of a typical premises or establishment located in a permanent location, built with constructions or fixed facilities.</p>
<p>Consequently, they operate on public roads on foot or installed in public spaces, using lightweight facilities so that can be moved from place to place, or at their own home.</p>
<p>As there is no establishment or premises, the purpose of this question is to identify only whether they have any type of minimum facilities as a work tool, regardless of the public location where the economic activity is performed or if they have none. In this way, for example, a merchant may be dedicated to selling candies in the subway (that is, walking from one side to the other) carrying a container in their hands in which they bring their merchandise, or having a table installed outside of their house, or having a semi-fixed stand in a park.</p>
<p>In addition to the foregoing, in order to classify the information in this question, consider the main activity to which the economic unit is dedicated, so you should keep in mind the information entered in question 4a. If a combination of activities appears there, when classifying prioritize one of these according to the following criteria:</p>
<p>1. Extraction or collection activities, along with production. If an economic unit is dedicated, in addition to extracting and collecting, to manufacturing some product, identify where the production activity takes place.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>2. Manufacturing activities. If the information indicates that an economic unit is dedicated to preparing and selling some product (except foods), circle the option according to the place where it is prepared.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<div class="i1">- Personal, professional and technical service activities. Classify the economic units based on the place where their main activity is carried out.</div><p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>4. Food preparation and/or service activities. If an economic unit is dedicated to selling foods and beverages, ask if they are sold to the end consumer or to an intermediary. If they are for the end consumer, that is, directly to the public, circle the option that indicates the place where they are sold: on foot, in an improvised stand, private home with or without special facilities, semi-fixed stand. If they are sold to intermediaries, who in turn resell them, identify the place where they are prepared.</p>
<p>Consider an economic unit to operate on a vehicle (motorized or not, fixed or moving), only if the main activity is carried out on the vehicular unit: transporting cargo or people, marketing or providing personal services (sale of food, for example).</p>
<p>Do not consider the vehicle the place where the main activity is carried out if it serves only as an instrument of support for the performance of the substantive activity of the economic unit: transporting the raw materials used in a productive process, distributing the merchandise of a company dedicated to agricultural/livestock activities, marketing, extraction or manufacturing.</p>
<p>In the case of shaved ice, ice pops and freeze pops, or fermented beverages such as <span class="lang">pulque</span>, <span class="lang">tejuino</span>, <span class="lang">tepache</span> and foods such as candies, lollipops, pork rinds, tortilla products, bakery and dairy products (cheese, yogurt), circle, as an exceptional case, the option that indicates where they are prepared, not where they are sold.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>5. Marketing activities. When an economic unit is dedicated only to marketing (purchase-sale) activities, identify the place where the economic transaction takes place: from house to house or in the street, in an improvised stand, in a vehicle (with or without a motor), in their own home (with or without special facilities), in a semi-fixed stand.</p>
<p>Identify the type of vehicle an economic unit has to conduct its commercial activity, only if said activity is conducted on the vehicle. Do not consider it if the vehicular unit is only used as a means to transport the merchandise.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>6. Independent vendors of catalog products. In this case, circle the option according to the informant's response: option 08 in the home or property of the employer or in the location requested by the clients or 02 on foot house to house or in the street.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>7. Economic activities on foot. If an economic unit is dedicated to marketing or providing services on the public roads and has a vehicle to conduct its activities, give priority to the fact that it has a vehicle (with or without a motor) to conduct its economic activity, but only when the main activity is carried out on the vehicle; if it only serves as support, assign code 02.
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>8. Order of the options. It is important to note that the order of the options has a basic purpose: to identify the level of insecurity under which the economic units that lack an establishment operate. This level, in general terms, is greater in the first options and lower in the later ones. So, an economic unit is classified based on the type of resources it has, determined by the type of facilities or the place where its activities are conducted.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />Fishermen can be classified as follows:</p>
<div class="i1">- Mr. Quintero only has a harpoon or a net. Circle option 01.<br />- Mr. Puk has a canoe. Circle option 04.<br />- Mr. Salvatierra has a motorboat. Circle option 05.<br />- The candy shop for which Carmen works has a fixed stand opposite the market. In order to increase revenues, she walks the streets and nearby businesses with a cardboard box in her hands in, which she offers her merchandise. Circle code 10 fixed stand.</div><p>Instructions:</p>
<p>01. In the field, open air, dam, pool, sea.</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that do not have a premises or establishment and conduct their agricultural/livestock production, forestry, fishing and hunting activities and the collection of agricultural and forestry products (timber and non-timber) in open spaces such as lagoons, sea, forest, plot, paddock, river, mountain.<br />The economic units classified here have small owners, are characterized by having few agricultural implements, for example a tractor, but not more sophisticated infrastructure like pumped, droplet or spray irrigation systems, or the availability of agricultural implements like harvesters, sprayers, seeders, rakes and threshers.<br /><br />In the case of the livestock sector, the units classified here are dedicated to the breeding of livestock and poultry, beekeeping, by tenancy or on communal and private property, such that they do not have facilities for systematic exploitation.<br /><br />In the case of the fishing industry, the units classified here are characterized by performing their activities in estuaries, rivers and because they do not use sophisticated fishing implements, such as sonar or trawl nets; it includes units dedicated to growing aquatic species in dams, ponds and pools.<br /><br />- Those dedicated to collecting non-timber forest products, such as wild fruits, medicinal and ornamental plants.<br />- People dedicated to hunting animals for commercial purposes.</div><p>01. In the field, open air, dam, pool, sea.</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Fishing with a net and harpoon<br />- Preparing charcoal in an oven located in the forest<br />- Extracting sand and gravel from the river<br />- Collecting wild herbs and roots.<br />- Collecting shells on the seashore to sell<br />- Raising bees to obtain honey<br />- Hunting scorpions<br />- Capturing birds for sale<br /><br />Exclude from this option:<br /><br />- Economic units dedicated to providing professional or non-professional support services to the primary sector, such as fumigating, pruning fruit trees, cleaning agricultural products, shoeing animals, spraying cattle, shearing, care and healing of cattle, renting agricultural machinery and equipment with operator. Circle option 08 in the home of the employer or in the location requested by the clients.</div><div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Gerardo comes with his tractor to the home of the economic units where his services are requested to prepare agricultural lands.<br />- Silvio is a veterinarian, he goes to cattle ranches where his services are requested to care for the animals.<br />- Rosaura provides services harvesting and degraining agricultural products for different agricultural units.<br />- Economic units that are only dedicated to the purchase-sale of sand and gravel, as they are classified based on the location where the economic transaction takes place.</div><p>02. On foot house to house or in the street</p>
<div class="i1">- The economic units classified in this option are characterized because their main activity takes place in public spaces: walking, either through the streets, visiting people house to house or in their places of work, to offer their merchandise or provide their services.<br /><br />These are economic units that lack fixed facilities or because their activity justifies it, they move from one place to another promoting the marketing of their products or services such that they carry containers in their hands or on their shoulders in which they carry merchandise which they sell or the instruments necessary to provide their services.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The clothing vendor who carries her merchandise in a bag to the home of her usual customers or the new customers to include them in her portfolio.</div><p>02. On foot house to house or in the street</p>
<div class="i2">- A candy vendor who walks the market or rides on public transportation with a box in which he carries his merchandise.<br />- The knife sharpener who walks the streets carrying a file in his hands with which he sharpens knives and scissors.<br />- The candy vendor who walks the market or rides on public transportation with a box in which he carries his merchandise.<br />- A jewelry and perfume vendor who goes to offices where his clients are.<br />- A handicrafts vendor who walks the beach carrying necklaces and clothing in his hands.<br />- A woman who goes from house to house offering the flowers she carries in two buckets.<br />- Lottery ticket vendor who walks the streets offering his merchandise.<br />- Scavenger or collector of recyclable materials in public spaces and containers.<br />- Traveling shoe shine boy.<br />- Musician who works in bars where he has permission to offer his services inside them.<br />- Carrying grocery bags.<br />- Home trash collection service.<br /><br />Exclude sales agents and other subordinate workers who work for an economic unit which has a premises or establishment, as these are classified in question 4e.<br /><br />Also exclude economic units dedicated to preparing any product (food or non-food), taking into consideration that to prepare them it is necessary to have minimum facilities to manufacture or prepare it, not walking on foot, so they should be classified in option 03.</div><p>03. Improvised stand</p>
<div class="i1">- The economic units classified here are characterized by locating themselves in a single public space (they don't move), such as avenues or streets, markets, parks, plazas, open air markets, and they place their products on the ground or have minimal facilities to do their work: a blanket on the ground, a table, bench, portable burner, brazier, pallet.<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The sale of religious items exhibited on a table outside of the church.<br />- The "pirated" CD vendor who exhibits his merchandise on a blanket placed on the ground.<br />- Juice vendor who makes natural juices on a table set up outside of his house.<br />- Grain vendor who places several boxes with his products in the open air markets.</div><p>03. Improvised stand</p>
<div class="i2">- The cards reader who places a table in a park.<br />- The cooked corn vendor who sets up a portable burner, table and pots on an avenue.<br />- The craftsman who places merchandise he made himself on a blanket.</div><p>04. In vehicle without motor (bicycle, tricycle, cart, boat)</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that have a vehicle of any kind, but without a motor: bicycles, horse-drawn carriages, roller carts, carts (pulled by a person or by animals), boats, <span class="lang">trajineras </span> (gondola-like-boats), tricycles, etc., to be used in activities related to transporting people for purposes of tourism or otherwise, or to transport cargo or for marketing activities or provision of services, such that the main activity that distinguishes the economic unit is carried out on the vehicular unit.<br /><br />These vehicles may be found moving or remain on the same site during the workday.<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The fruit and vegetable vendor who moves through the streets with a cart promoting his products.<br />- The bike taxi driver.<br />- The lollipop vendor who roams the streets with a hand cart.<br />- The hot dog vendor on a cart set up every day in the same place.<br />- Tours in a horse-drawn carriage.<br />- Loading an unloading service using a hand truck ("dolly").<br />- Preparation and sale of tacos on a cart.<br /><br />Exclude from this option economic units dedicated to activities other than trade or transport services and who say they have a vehicle, but where it is only used as another work tool, for example, to transport merchandise or raw materials that will be used for their own productive process or to transport merchandise requested by their clients.<br /><br />Also exclude from this option carts and wagons installed permanently in corridors of shopping centers and inside other established economic units, as they are classified in option 09 fixed stand.</div><p>05. In a motorized vehicle (automobile, motorcycle or pickup truck)</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that use motorized vehicles to conduct production, marketing or personal service activities on their own vehicular units. To conduct their activity, these vehicles may circulate through streets and avenues or remain in the same site during the workday.</div><p>05. In a motorized vehicle (automobile, motorcycle or pickup truck)</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Taking photographs on a truck that was adapted as a photographic studio.<br />- Exhibiting and selling clothing in the trunk of a car.<br />- In a shuttle, adapted with shelves to exhibit the bread they sell on the street.<br />- Commercial fishing in a motor boat.<br />- Collecting recyclable materials in a pickup truck.<br />- Moving services in a pickup truck.<br />- Transporting people in a shuttle.<br />- Transporting children in a miniature train inside a park.<br />- Teaching how to drive a car.<br />- Selling corn-on-the-cob in a pickup truck.<br />- Tours on banana boats or paragliders. In this case, prioritize the fact of having a motor boat to tow the banana.<br /><br />Exclude from this option economic units that have vehicles as an instrument to support the performance of their own activities, for example, for transport dedicated to marketing, producing, collecting.</div><p>06. In their own home without special facilities</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent and subordinate workers who work in a space in the home in which they reside, where it is used at the same time to perform an economic activity and as the family home.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A carpenter's workshop which is also a service patio.<br />- The living room of the house which is used for family meetings and to provide spiritual healing services.<br />- The garage of the house which at night is used to protect the family's vehicle and during the day, as a diner.<br />- One of the rooms used as a study and to complete computer repair services.<br />- The kitchen of the home used to make cakes for sale.<br />- The patio used to prepare wax from catkin.</div><p>07. In their own home without special installation</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent and subordinate workers who work for economic units who operate in their own home (home where they normally reside), in a space destined and adapted exclusively to perform an economic activity, but which shares the same access as the home.</div><p>07. In their own home without special installation</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The room adapted as a sewing room, which is accessed by passing through the home's living room.<br />- Rooms the home uses exclusively for guests who pay for lodging services.<br />- The space adapted as an auto body repair and painting workshop.</div><div class="i1">- The independent worker who performs his activities, at the same time, inside and outside of his own home. In this case prioritize the fact that he has a space within his own home.<br /><br />Example:</div><div class="i1">- The independent worker who adapted the garage of their home as a diner, but because of a lack of sufficient space, puts tables outside of the house to serve his customers.</div><p>08. In the home or property of the employer or in the location requested by the clients</p>
<div class="i1">Subordinate workers who work for an economic unit whose facilities (adapted or not) are found inside the private home where their employer resides.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Workers in the manufacture of any product.<br />- Service workers: private teacher, nurse, salesperson.<br />- Workers in general repair and maintenance services.<br />- Independent or subordinate workers who must go to the location of clients who are already part of their portfolio or those who have a probability of incorporating. The service of those workers may be hired via telephone call to their homes or meeting with them personally.</div><div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Merchants and salespersons.<br />- Construction workers: masons, electricians, fumigators, floor installers, painters, plumbers.<br />- Workers in personal and professional services: soccer referees, interior decorators, nurses, stylists, photographers, musicians and singers, waiters, clowns, private teachers, choreographers for fifteenth birthday parties, night watchmen or independent security guards in residential areas.<br />- Workers in repair and maintenance services.</div><p>09. Semi-fixed stand</p>
<div class="i1">- People who conduct their activity on stands made up of structures built from lightweight materials that are assembled and disassembled at the start and end of the workday, respectively, or that are removed after a few days. The mobility of these stands is due to the type of material used and that they are not secured to the ground. These stands are installed in public spaces: streets, avenues, parks, plazas, open air markets.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Mechanical toys that are placed outside a church.<br />- The stand where meats, churros, corn-on-the-cob, chips are prepared, where there may be basic tools, such as a table, pan and gas tank.<br />- Tubular structures where services are provided or products marketed.</div><p>10. Fixed stand</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units, regardless of the activity sector to which they are dedicated, who work in facilities or stands that are anchored, secured to the ground. These are, then, facilities of any material that remain day and night in the same site because they cannot be removed, at least not easily, from where they are located.<br />This type of facilities may be tanks, ovens or stands that are installed in public spaces: streets, avenues, public plazas, parks, lots or vacant lots, walkways in shopping centers or inside the facilities of other economic units.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Carts, shelving units, kiosks, display cases on the sidewalks of plazas or shopping centers.<br />- News and magazine stands.<br />- Stands located inside schools.<br />- Wire fences that delimit the space of economic units on urban lots or properties (a car lot, for example)<br />- Brickyard in a vacant lot.<br />- Tank for fish farming.</div><p>11. Other location</p>
<div class="i1">- People who conduct their activities in facilities or locations other than those mentioned in the preceding options.<br />Examples:<br />- Workers who share, on loan, the same premises or facilities with the economic unit that owns it, lacking their own.</div><p>11. Other location</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Nancy has a small space loaned to her from a department store to do her work: painting children's faces.<br />- Hector has a public internet; lacking his own premises, his buddy gave him a small space, as a loan, inside his clothing store.<br />Exclude those who pay to use a space, even if it is shared with another economic unit. In this case, consider them to have a premise.<br />- Sequence to follow. Regardless of the option you circle, continue with question 4g.</div>
<br />The purpose of this battery of questions is to identify some important characteristics of the economic units, taking as a starting point the establishment in which the people who are employed perform their main job. Some of these characteristics are: name, proprietary sector, type of activity to which it is dedicated, the way in which it operates (whether or not it is registered under the Law of Corporations, in the case of private companies and businesses, or the way in which the public administration of this country operates), availability of premises and accounting records, as well as the geographic level in which it performs, in the case of private companies and businesses.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 4</span>
<br />This question is asked to employed persons, in order to find out if the economic unit for which they work has a name.
<br />[Omitted figure]</p>
<p><span class="ital">Name of the economic unit</span>. The trade name, business name or name with which a company, institution or business advertises itself.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 4f</span>
<br />This question is asked to employed persons who work for an independent business or activity, whether personal or family that do not have an establishment, premises or office, in order to find out the place where the economic unit conducts its activities.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:</p>
<p>It is important to keep in mind that this question is focused on identifying the place where the economic unit operates, not the place where the interviewee works. It is worth stating that the place where both the economic unit and the interviewee work may be the same.</p>
<p>The units classified here are characterized, mainly, by their lack of a typical premises or establishment located in a permanent location, built with constructions or fixed facilities.</p>
<p>Consequently, they operate on public roads on foot or installed in public spaces, using lightweight facilities so that can be moved from place to place, or at their own home.</p>
<p>As there is no establishment or premises, the purpose of this question is to identify only whether they have any type of minimum facilities as a work tool, regardless of the public location where the economic activity is performed or if they have none. In this way, for example, a merchant may be dedicated to selling candies in the subway (that is, walking from one side to the other) carrying a container in their hands in which they bring their merchandise, or having a table installed outside of their house, or having a semi-fixed stand in a park.</p>
<p>In addition to the foregoing, in order to classify the information in this question, consider the main activity to which the economic unit is dedicated, so you should keep in mind the information entered in question 4a. If a combination of activities appears there, when classifying prioritize one of these according to the following criteria:</p>
<p>1. Extraction or collection activities, along with production. If an economic unit is dedicated, in addition to extracting and collecting, to manufacturing some product, identify where the production activity takes place.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>2. Manufacturing activities. If the information indicates that an economic unit is dedicated to preparing and selling some product (except foods), circle the option according to the place where it is prepared.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<div class="i1">- Personal, professional and technical service activities. Classify the economic units based on the place where their main activity is carried out.</div><p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>4. Food preparation and/or service activities. If an economic unit is dedicated to selling foods and beverages, ask if they are sold to the end consumer or to an intermediary. If they are for the end consumer, that is, directly to the public, circle the option that indicates the place where they are sold: on foot, in an improvised stand, private home with or without special facilities, semi-fixed stand. If they are sold to intermediaries, who in turn resell them, identify the place where they are prepared.</p>
<p>Consider an economic unit to operate on a vehicle (motorized or not, fixed or moving), only if the main activity is carried out on the vehicular unit: transporting cargo or people, marketing or providing personal services (sale of food, for example).</p>
<p>Do not consider the vehicle the place where the main activity is carried out if it serves only as an instrument of support for the performance of the substantive activity of the economic unit: transporting the raw materials used in a productive process, distributing the merchandise of a company dedicated to agricultural/livestock activities, marketing, extraction or manufacturing.</p>
<p>In the case of shaved ice, ice pops and freeze pops, or fermented beverages such as <span class="lang">pulque</span>, <span class="lang">tejuino</span>, <span class="lang">tepache</span> and foods such as candies, lollipops, pork rinds, tortilla products, bakery and dairy products (cheese, yogurt), circle, as an exceptional case, the option that indicates where they are prepared, not where they are sold.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>[Omitted table]</p>
<p>5. Marketing activities. When an economic unit is dedicated only to marketing (purchase-sale) activities, identify the place where the economic transaction takes place: from house to house or in the street, in an improvised stand, in a vehicle (with or without a motor), in their own home (with or without special facilities), in a semi-fixed stand.</p>
<p>Identify the type of vehicle an economic unit has to conduct its commercial activity, only if said activity is conducted on the vehicle. Do not consider it if the vehicular unit is only used as a means to transport the merchandise.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>6. Independent vendors of catalog products. In this case, circle the option according to the informant's response: option 08 in the home or property of the employer or in the location requested by the clients or 02 on foot house to house or in the street.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>7. Economic activities on foot. If an economic unit is dedicated to marketing or providing services on the public roads and has a vehicle to conduct its activities, give priority to the fact that it has a vehicle (with or without a motor) to conduct its economic activity, but only when the main activity is carried out on the vehicle; if it only serves as support, assign code 02.
<br />[Omitted table]</p>
<p>8. Order of the options. It is important to note that the order of the options has a basic purpose: to identify the level of insecurity under which the economic units that lack an establishment operate. This level, in general terms, is greater in the first options and lower in the later ones. So, an economic unit is classified based on the type of resources it has, determined by the type of facilities or the place where its activities are conducted.</p>
<p>Examples:
<br />Fishermen can be classified as follows:</p>
<div class="i1">- Mr. Quintero only has a harpoon or a net. Circle option 01.<br />- Mr. Puk has a canoe. Circle option 04.<br />- Mr. Salvatierra has a motorboat. Circle option 05.<br />- The candy shop for which Carmen works has a fixed stand opposite the market. In order to increase revenues, she walks the streets and nearby businesses with a cardboard box in her hands in, which she offers her merchandise. Circle code 10 fixed stand.</div><p>Instructions:</p>
<p>01. In the field, open air, dam, pool, sea.</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that do not have a premises or establishment and conduct their agricultural/livestock production, forestry, fishing and hunting activities and the collection of agricultural and forestry products (timber and non-timber) in open spaces such as lagoons, sea, forest, plot, paddock, river, mountain.<br />The economic units classified here have small owners, are characterized by having few agricultural implements, for example a tractor, but not more sophisticated infrastructure like pumped, droplet or spray irrigation systems, or the availability of agricultural implements like harvesters, sprayers, seeders, rakes and threshers.<br /><br />In the case of the livestock sector, the units classified here are dedicated to the breeding of livestock and poultry, beekeeping, by tenancy or on communal and private property, such that they do not have facilities for systematic exploitation.<br /><br />In the case of the fishing industry, the units classified here are characterized by performing their activities in estuaries, rivers and because they do not use sophisticated fishing implements, such as sonar or trawl nets; it includes units dedicated to growing aquatic species in dams, ponds and pools.<br /><br />- Those dedicated to collecting non-timber forest products, such as wild fruits, medicinal and ornamental plants.<br />- People dedicated to hunting animals for commercial purposes.</div><p>01. In the field, open air, dam, pool, sea.</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Fishing with a net and harpoon<br />- Preparing charcoal in an oven located in the forest<br />- Extracting sand and gravel from the river<br />- Collecting wild herbs and roots.<br />- Collecting shells on the seashore to sell<br />- Raising bees to obtain honey<br />- Hunting scorpions<br />- Capturing birds for sale<br /><br />Exclude from this option:<br /><br />- Economic units dedicated to providing professional or non-professional support services to the primary sector, such as fumigating, pruning fruit trees, cleaning agricultural products, shoeing animals, spraying cattle, shearing, care and healing of cattle, renting agricultural machinery and equipment with operator. Circle option 08 in the home of the employer or in the location requested by the clients.</div><div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Gerardo comes with his tractor to the home of the economic units where his services are requested to prepare agricultural lands.<br />- Silvio is a veterinarian, he goes to cattle ranches where his services are requested to care for the animals.<br />- Rosaura provides services harvesting and degraining agricultural products for different agricultural units.<br />- Economic units that are only dedicated to the purchase-sale of sand and gravel, as they are classified based on the location where the economic transaction takes place.</div><p>02. On foot house to house or in the street</p>
<div class="i1">- The economic units classified in this option are characterized because their main activity takes place in public spaces: walking, either through the streets, visiting people house to house or in their places of work, to offer their merchandise or provide their services.<br /><br />These are economic units that lack fixed facilities or because their activity justifies it, they move from one place to another promoting the marketing of their products or services such that they carry containers in their hands or on their shoulders in which they carry merchandise which they sell or the instruments necessary to provide their services.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The clothing vendor who carries her merchandise in a bag to the home of her usual customers or the new customers to include them in her portfolio.</div><p>02. On foot house to house or in the street</p>
<div class="i2">- A candy vendor who walks the market or rides on public transportation with a box in which he carries his merchandise.<br />- The knife sharpener who walks the streets carrying a file in his hands with which he sharpens knives and scissors.<br />- The candy vendor who walks the market or rides on public transportation with a box in which he carries his merchandise.<br />- A jewelry and perfume vendor who goes to offices where his clients are.<br />- A handicrafts vendor who walks the beach carrying necklaces and clothing in his hands.<br />- A woman who goes from house to house offering the flowers she carries in two buckets.<br />- Lottery ticket vendor who walks the streets offering his merchandise.<br />- Scavenger or collector of recyclable materials in public spaces and containers.<br />- Traveling shoe shine boy.<br />- Musician who works in bars where he has permission to offer his services inside them.<br />- Carrying grocery bags.<br />- Home trash collection service.<br /><br />Exclude sales agents and other subordinate workers who work for an economic unit which has a premises or establishment, as these are classified in question 4e.<br /><br />Also exclude economic units dedicated to preparing any product (food or non-food), taking into consideration that to prepare them it is necessary to have minimum facilities to manufacture or prepare it, not walking on foot, so they should be classified in option 03.</div><p>03. Improvised stand</p>
<div class="i1">- The economic units classified here are characterized by locating themselves in a single public space (they don't move), such as avenues or streets, markets, parks, plazas, open air markets, and they place their products on the ground or have minimal facilities to do their work: a blanket on the ground, a table, bench, portable burner, brazier, pallet.<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The sale of religious items exhibited on a table outside of the church.<br />- The "pirated" CD vendor who exhibits his merchandise on a blanket placed on the ground.<br />- Juice vendor who makes natural juices on a table set up outside of his house.<br />- Grain vendor who places several boxes with his products in the open air markets.</div><p>03. Improvised stand</p>
<div class="i2">- The cards reader who places a table in a park.<br />- The cooked corn vendor who sets up a portable burner, table and pots on an avenue.<br />- The craftsman who places merchandise he made himself on a blanket.</div><p>04. In vehicle without motor (bicycle, tricycle, cart, boat)</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that have a vehicle of any kind, but without a motor: bicycles, horse-drawn carriages, roller carts, carts (pulled by a person or by animals), boats, <span class="lang">trajineras </span> (gondola-like-boats), tricycles, etc., to be used in activities related to transporting people for purposes of tourism or otherwise, or to transport cargo or for marketing activities or provision of services, such that the main activity that distinguishes the economic unit is carried out on the vehicular unit.<br /><br />These vehicles may be found moving or remain on the same site during the workday.<br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The fruit and vegetable vendor who moves through the streets with a cart promoting his products.<br />- The bike taxi driver.<br />- The lollipop vendor who roams the streets with a hand cart.<br />- The hot dog vendor on a cart set up every day in the same place.<br />- Tours in a horse-drawn carriage.<br />- Loading an unloading service using a hand truck ("dolly").<br />- Preparation and sale of tacos on a cart.<br /><br />Exclude from this option economic units dedicated to activities other than trade or transport services and who say they have a vehicle, but where it is only used as another work tool, for example, to transport merchandise or raw materials that will be used for their own productive process or to transport merchandise requested by their clients.<br /><br />Also exclude from this option carts and wagons installed permanently in corridors of shopping centers and inside other established economic units, as they are classified in option 09 fixed stand.</div><p>05. In a motorized vehicle (automobile, motorcycle or pickup truck)</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units that use motorized vehicles to conduct production, marketing or personal service activities on their own vehicular units. To conduct their activity, these vehicles may circulate through streets and avenues or remain in the same site during the workday.</div><p>05. In a motorized vehicle (automobile, motorcycle or pickup truck)</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Taking photographs on a truck that was adapted as a photographic studio.<br />- Exhibiting and selling clothing in the trunk of a car.<br />- In a shuttle, adapted with shelves to exhibit the bread they sell on the street.<br />- Commercial fishing in a motor boat.<br />- Collecting recyclable materials in a pickup truck.<br />- Moving services in a pickup truck.<br />- Transporting people in a shuttle.<br />- Transporting children in a miniature train inside a park.<br />- Teaching how to drive a car.<br />- Selling corn-on-the-cob in a pickup truck.<br />- Tours on banana boats or paragliders. In this case, prioritize the fact of having a motor boat to tow the banana.<br /><br />Exclude from this option economic units that have vehicles as an instrument to support the performance of their own activities, for example, for transport dedicated to marketing, producing, collecting.</div><p>06. In their own home without special facilities</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent and subordinate workers who work in a space in the home in which they reside, where it is used at the same time to perform an economic activity and as the family home.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- A carpenter's workshop which is also a service patio.<br />- The living room of the house which is used for family meetings and to provide spiritual healing services.<br />- The garage of the house which at night is used to protect the family's vehicle and during the day, as a diner.<br />- One of the rooms used as a study and to complete computer repair services.<br />- The kitchen of the home used to make cakes for sale.<br />- The patio used to prepare wax from catkin.</div><p>07. In their own home without special installation</p>
<div class="i1">- Independent and subordinate workers who work for economic units who operate in their own home (home where they normally reside), in a space destined and adapted exclusively to perform an economic activity, but which shares the same access as the home.</div><p>07. In their own home without special installation</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- The room adapted as a sewing room, which is accessed by passing through the home's living room.<br />- Rooms the home uses exclusively for guests who pay for lodging services.<br />- The space adapted as an auto body repair and painting workshop.</div><div class="i1">- The independent worker who performs his activities, at the same time, inside and outside of his own home. In this case prioritize the fact that he has a space within his own home.<br /><br />Example:</div><div class="i1">- The independent worker who adapted the garage of their home as a diner, but because of a lack of sufficient space, puts tables outside of the house to serve his customers.</div><p>08. In the home or property of the employer or in the location requested by the clients</p>
<div class="i1">Subordinate workers who work for an economic unit whose facilities (adapted or not) are found inside the private home where their employer resides.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Workers in the manufacture of any product.<br />- Service workers: private teacher, nurse, salesperson.<br />- Workers in general repair and maintenance services.<br />- Independent or subordinate workers who must go to the location of clients who are already part of their portfolio or those who have a probability of incorporating. The service of those workers may be hired via telephone call to their homes or meeting with them personally.</div><div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Merchants and salespersons.<br />- Construction workers: masons, electricians, fumigators, floor installers, painters, plumbers.<br />- Workers in personal and professional services: soccer referees, interior decorators, nurses, stylists, photographers, musicians and singers, waiters, clowns, private teachers, choreographers for fifteenth birthday parties, night watchmen or independent security guards in residential areas.<br />- Workers in repair and maintenance services.</div><p>09. Semi-fixed stand</p>
<div class="i1">- People who conduct their activity on stands made up of structures built from lightweight materials that are assembled and disassembled at the start and end of the workday, respectively, or that are removed after a few days. The mobility of these stands is due to the type of material used and that they are not secured to the ground. These stands are installed in public spaces: streets, avenues, parks, plazas, open air markets.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Mechanical toys that are placed outside a church.<br />- The stand where meats, churros, corn-on-the-cob, chips are prepared, where there may be basic tools, such as a table, pan and gas tank.<br />- Tubular structures where services are provided or products marketed.</div><p>10. Fixed stand</p>
<div class="i1">- Economic units, regardless of the activity sector to which they are dedicated, who work in facilities or stands that are anchored, secured to the ground. These are, then, facilities of any material that remain day and night in the same site because they cannot be removed, at least not easily, from where they are located.<br />This type of facilities may be tanks, ovens or stands that are installed in public spaces: streets, avenues, public plazas, parks, lots or vacant lots, walkways in shopping centers or inside the facilities of other economic units.<br /><br />Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Carts, shelving units, kiosks, display cases on the sidewalks of plazas or shopping centers.<br />- News and magazine stands.<br />- Stands located inside schools.<br />- Wire fences that delimit the space of economic units on urban lots or properties (a car lot, for example)<br />- Brickyard in a vacant lot.<br />- Tank for fish farming.</div><p>11. Other location</p>
<div class="i1">- People who conduct their activities in facilities or locations other than those mentioned in the preceding options.<br />Examples:<br />- Workers who share, on loan, the same premises or facilities with the economic unit that owns it, lacking their own.</div><p>11. Other location</p>
<div class="i1">Examples:</div><div class="i2">- Nancy has a small space loaned to her from a department store to do her work: painting children's faces.<br />- Hector has a public internet; lacking his own premises, his buddy gave him a small space, as a loan, inside his clothing store.<br />Exclude those who pay to use a space, even if it is shared with another economic unit. In this case, consider them to have a premise.<br />- Sequence to follow. Regardless of the option you circle, continue with question 4g.</div>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the place where business activities take place.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q1 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were employed for an economic unit in Mexico in the non-agricultural private sector, in a family or personal business that does not have an office nor a establishment, excluding those hired by a household or another worker
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Concept
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