National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q3, IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2009
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MEX_2009_LFS-Q3_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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- MEX2009_LFS-Q3-H-H.dat
- MEX2009_LFS-Q3-P-H.dat
Type of resident (MX2009J_C_RES)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q3-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
209
End:
209
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<div class="title">Sociodemographic questionnaire</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">VII. Sociodemographic characteristics</span></p>
<p>5. List of persons - What are the names of all the residents of this home?</p>
<div class="i1">(Please include the names of guests, domestic workers, and workers' families at the end of the list.) _______</div><p>6. Residency status (from 2nd to 5th interview) - I am going to read the names of the persons I have listed. Please tell me if they continue living here.</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No (skip to 20)</div><p>Is there anyone else who lives here and is a part of this home?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 3 Yes (new resident)<br />[] 4 No (skip to COE)</div><p>Interview number</p>
<div class="i1">_ 2<br />_ 3<br />_ 4<br />_ 5</div>
<p><span class="h1">VII. Sociodemographic characteristics</span></p>
<p>5. List of persons - What are the names of all the residents of this home?</p>
<div class="i1">(Please include the names of guests, domestic workers, and workers' families at the end of the list.) _______</div><p>6. Residency status (from 2nd to 5th interview) - I am going to read the names of the persons I have listed. Please tell me if they continue living here.</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes<br />[] 2 No (skip to 20)</div><p>Is there anyone else who lives here and is a part of this home?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 3 Yes (new resident)<br />[] 4 No (skip to COE)</div><p>Interview number</p>
<div class="i1">_ 2<br />_ 3<br />_ 4<br />_ 5</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Usual resident |
| 2 | Permanently absent |
| 3 | New resident |
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">6.5 Section V. Residents of the home and identification of households</span>
<br />The purpose of this section is to identify, in each interview, how many people normally reside in the home and how many households make up this group of people.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Instructions:
<br />This section contains four questions, which are asked in each interview as if being asked for the first time.</p>
<p>Although it has already been stated, it is worth emphasizing how important it is, when conducting the interview, to ask the questions textually, in order to avoid losing valuable information, as in this case, the identification of habitual residents of the home, and the questions are designed in such a way that it is the informant, and not you, who defines who are the habitual residents of their home.</p>
<p>A typical case in which the informant tends to have doubts when defining the residence status is that of students and workers who, due to the long distance to their study and work centers, respectively, must reside, most of the week, in another private home. Only in this type of cases will you be the one to decide whether or not to consider a person a habitual resident based on the criteria listed in the next question.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 1</span>
<br />The question is asked in each interview to learn the total number of people who habitually reside in the home.</p>
<p>Habitual resident. Person who normally lives in the selected home, in which they usually sleep, eat and are protected from the environment; as well as those found in the home at the time of the interview who did not have another place to live.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<p><span class="ital">Habitual residents:</span></p>
<p>The people who normally live in the home, regardless of their nationality.</p>
<p>Newborns (including those who have not arrived at the home because they are still in the hospital).</p>
<p>People who don't sleep regularly in selected home but rather in:</p>
<div class="i1">- A group living arrangement, such as: boats, ships, work camps, barracks, hotels, oil platforms, for work reasons, as in the case of fishermen, army personnel, air force, marines, police, travel agents, truck drivers.<br />- Their place of work: industrial plant, hospital, for example, nurses, night watchmen.<br />- Their place of study, such as the dormitory in the case of students.</div><p>Those temporarily absent due to passing circumstances, such as completing academic practice, travel for business or pleasure, work commission.</p>
<p>People who are hospitalized and inmates in a prison, as long as the absence is less than or equal to 3 months, as of the interview date. If on two consecutive visits a person is reported as absent, consider them a non-resident.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Not habitual residents of the home of origin (selected):</span>
<br />Students and workers who normally sleep most of the week in a private home other than the selected home, due to the distance to their workplace or study center</p>
<p>People who have resided for more than three months in a group living arrangement located in the national territory, for example, patients in a hospital, people in jail facing a legal problem, people professing their religious faith. Exclude workers and students.</p>
<p>People who have been living abroad for more than three months without reporting the reasons for their stay: legal provisions, academic or religious training, work, etc.</p>
<p>People who arrived at the selected home with the intention of remaining only for a time while they resolve a contingency in their own home or in their household. For example, during a flood or earthquake risk, problems with public safety or a personal conflict.</p>
<p>If they are still residing in the home at the next interview, check their residence status asking if they intend to continue living in that home permanently or for at least three more months; if so, consider them residents, otherwise no.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Habitual residents:</span>
<br />People who are present at the time of the interview because they have no other fixed place to live: elderly or children of divorced parents who are temporarily living in different homes.</p>
<p>Guests or tenants (that is, people who pay for the service of lodging and food, or only for the first).</p>
<p>Domestic workers and their families who live in the same home as their employers, sleep and prepare their meals.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Not habitual residents of the home of origin (selected):</span></p>
<p>Permanently absent. People who have been living somewhere else permanently, regardless of the time that has passed since they left or the reason: school, work, marriage, divorce, etc.</p>
<p>People with a residence for more than three months in an unknown location. If a person has left the selected home more than three months ago, counted from the moment they left, and it is not known if they live in a private or a group living arrangement, do not count them as a resident of the (selected) home.</p>
<p>Sequence to follow. If only one person resides in the home, enter the indicated amount (01); and do not ask question number two so it doesn't sound out of context, but do not leave it blank for any reason, in these cases always assign the response option 1 in question 2. If two or more people reside in the home, continue with the normal interview, that is, read the questions that follow.</p>
<p>First interview</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 5</span>
<br />This question is asked to identify all members of the household.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />Members of the household. People who habitually reside in the same home and are sustained by common expenses, principally for groceries.
<br />Head of household. Member of the household 12 years of age or older that all or most of the informants recognize as such, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, or if he or she contributes or not to its economic sustenance.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- Identification of head of household. Begin by identifying the person considered to be head of household by the members of the household. The head must be a habitual resident of the home; regardless of whether it is a man or a woman or whether or not he or she makes economic contributions to the household.<br /><br />If the informant or informants have questions about who should be recorded as the head of household, help to define it by asking who is responsible for the family income or the person who makes important decisions in the family. If necessary explain that, for the purposes of the survey, one person must be named as head of household.<br /><br />If the home is inhabited by a household with people who are not related in any way, such as friends, students or workers, making it difficult to determine who is the head of household, ask who of the habitual residents is the owner or responsible for the home or of the oldest. Record the person the informant indicates as the head.<br /><br />If a person lives alone in the home, record them as the head.<br /><br />- Order when recording the members of the household. Once you have identified and entered the head of household, ask for the names of the rest of the members. To ensure that no member of the household is omitted, when entering them it is recommended you adopt the following order:</div><div class="i2">1. Spouse or partner of the head of household.<br />2. Single children, from oldest to youngest. If the single children have children, record the grandchildren after their father or mother.<br />3. Married children, from oldest to youngest, with their respective spouses and children, from oldest to youngest.<br />4. Other relatives with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents: siblings, step-siblings, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, cousins, grandparents; parents-in-law, sons- and daughters-in-law, godparents, godchildren, etc.<br />5. Friends with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents.<br />6. Servants with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents. To identify them, ask: In this household are there domestic workers, nurses or people who care for the members of your household, who live here? Include them at the end of the list of household members.<br />7. Guests. In order to identify the presence of guests, you can ask: Are there in this household people who pay to sleep here in your home? If the response is yes, you can also ask: In addition to lodging service, do they pay for meals?</div><p>Remember to only enter on the same household questionnaire those who pay for lodging services (and at the end of the member list) if they are one-person households; if they have formed households among themselves, on an independent questionnaire.</p>
<div class="i1">- Record the name of each member. Only write the name without the surnames. Do not enter nicknames or diminutives. Write the surnames only if there is more than one member with the same name. In the case of newborns who don't have a name yet, enter the initials NN (for no name) and refer to them this way when obtaining the information on the rest of the questions you must ask.<br />- How to record the members of the household. The people must be recorded as follows, without skipping any line, regardless of whether there are empty lines at the end. It is extremely important to continue with the sequence of this same questionnaire and the occupation and employment questionnaire.</div><p>After you have recorded the last member of the household, draw a red line at the end of the list; the line should cover the entire section VII sociodemographic characteristics. The purpose of this line is to differentiate the number of people entered in the first interview from those that will be recorded in subsequent visits, if new members join the household.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Once you have finished entering all the people who make up the household, in the first interview, ask the rest of the questions, person by person.</p>
<div class="i1">- Capacity of the sociodemographic questionnaire. it has space to record up to 15 people. if in the first interview you detect that the number of residents is greater than this number, use another questionnaire. When entering the rest of the people on the additional questionnaire, void the printed numbers on this new form and assign consecutive numbers 16, 17, 18 until you have recorded all the people who make up the household. Follow this same instruction in all households when there are not enough lines on a questionnaire to enter them all.<br />- Consistency of the information. Once you have recorded all the members of the household, before continuing with the interview, compare the number of people listed with the number entered in questions 1-4 and 4 in section V. Residents of the home and identification of households. If you detect any inconsistency, explain the situation to the informant and correct where necessary.<br />- Sequence to follow. Continue with question 7.</div><span class="em">Column 6. Residence status</span>
<br />As this section is only used starting with the second interview, the instructions for filling it out appear at the end of those for question 19.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]
<br />The purpose of this section is to identify, in each interview, how many people normally reside in the home and how many households make up this group of people.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Instructions:
<br />This section contains four questions, which are asked in each interview as if being asked for the first time.</p>
<p>Although it has already been stated, it is worth emphasizing how important it is, when conducting the interview, to ask the questions textually, in order to avoid losing valuable information, as in this case, the identification of habitual residents of the home, and the questions are designed in such a way that it is the informant, and not you, who defines who are the habitual residents of their home.</p>
<p>A typical case in which the informant tends to have doubts when defining the residence status is that of students and workers who, due to the long distance to their study and work centers, respectively, must reside, most of the week, in another private home. Only in this type of cases will you be the one to decide whether or not to consider a person a habitual resident based on the criteria listed in the next question.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 1</span>
<br />The question is asked in each interview to learn the total number of people who habitually reside in the home.</p>
<p>Habitual resident. Person who normally lives in the selected home, in which they usually sleep, eat and are protected from the environment; as well as those found in the home at the time of the interview who did not have another place to live.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<p><span class="ital">Habitual residents:</span></p>
<p>The people who normally live in the home, regardless of their nationality.</p>
<p>Newborns (including those who have not arrived at the home because they are still in the hospital).</p>
<p>People who don't sleep regularly in selected home but rather in:</p>
<div class="i1">- A group living arrangement, such as: boats, ships, work camps, barracks, hotels, oil platforms, for work reasons, as in the case of fishermen, army personnel, air force, marines, police, travel agents, truck drivers.<br />- Their place of work: industrial plant, hospital, for example, nurses, night watchmen.<br />- Their place of study, such as the dormitory in the case of students.</div><p>Those temporarily absent due to passing circumstances, such as completing academic practice, travel for business or pleasure, work commission.</p>
<p>People who are hospitalized and inmates in a prison, as long as the absence is less than or equal to 3 months, as of the interview date. If on two consecutive visits a person is reported as absent, consider them a non-resident.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Not habitual residents of the home of origin (selected):</span>
<br />Students and workers who normally sleep most of the week in a private home other than the selected home, due to the distance to their workplace or study center</p>
<p>People who have resided for more than three months in a group living arrangement located in the national territory, for example, patients in a hospital, people in jail facing a legal problem, people professing their religious faith. Exclude workers and students.</p>
<p>People who have been living abroad for more than three months without reporting the reasons for their stay: legal provisions, academic or religious training, work, etc.</p>
<p>People who arrived at the selected home with the intention of remaining only for a time while they resolve a contingency in their own home or in their household. For example, during a flood or earthquake risk, problems with public safety or a personal conflict.</p>
<p>If they are still residing in the home at the next interview, check their residence status asking if they intend to continue living in that home permanently or for at least three more months; if so, consider them residents, otherwise no.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Habitual residents:</span>
<br />People who are present at the time of the interview because they have no other fixed place to live: elderly or children of divorced parents who are temporarily living in different homes.</p>
<p>Guests or tenants (that is, people who pay for the service of lodging and food, or only for the first).</p>
<p>Domestic workers and their families who live in the same home as their employers, sleep and prepare their meals.</p>
<p><span class="ital">Not habitual residents of the home of origin (selected):</span></p>
<p>Permanently absent. People who have been living somewhere else permanently, regardless of the time that has passed since they left or the reason: school, work, marriage, divorce, etc.</p>
<p>People with a residence for more than three months in an unknown location. If a person has left the selected home more than three months ago, counted from the moment they left, and it is not known if they live in a private or a group living arrangement, do not count them as a resident of the (selected) home.</p>
<p>Sequence to follow. If only one person resides in the home, enter the indicated amount (01); and do not ask question number two so it doesn't sound out of context, but do not leave it blank for any reason, in these cases always assign the response option 1 in question 2. If two or more people reside in the home, continue with the normal interview, that is, read the questions that follow.</p>
<p>First interview</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 5</span>
<br />This question is asked to identify all members of the household.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />Members of the household. People who habitually reside in the same home and are sustained by common expenses, principally for groceries.
<br />Head of household. Member of the household 12 years of age or older that all or most of the informants recognize as such, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman, or if he or she contributes or not to its economic sustenance.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- Identification of head of household. Begin by identifying the person considered to be head of household by the members of the household. The head must be a habitual resident of the home; regardless of whether it is a man or a woman or whether or not he or she makes economic contributions to the household.<br /><br />If the informant or informants have questions about who should be recorded as the head of household, help to define it by asking who is responsible for the family income or the person who makes important decisions in the family. If necessary explain that, for the purposes of the survey, one person must be named as head of household.<br /><br />If the home is inhabited by a household with people who are not related in any way, such as friends, students or workers, making it difficult to determine who is the head of household, ask who of the habitual residents is the owner or responsible for the home or of the oldest. Record the person the informant indicates as the head.<br /><br />If a person lives alone in the home, record them as the head.<br /><br />- Order when recording the members of the household. Once you have identified and entered the head of household, ask for the names of the rest of the members. To ensure that no member of the household is omitted, when entering them it is recommended you adopt the following order:</div><div class="i2">1. Spouse or partner of the head of household.<br />2. Single children, from oldest to youngest. If the single children have children, record the grandchildren after their father or mother.<br />3. Married children, from oldest to youngest, with their respective spouses and children, from oldest to youngest.<br />4. Other relatives with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents: siblings, step-siblings, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, cousins, grandparents; parents-in-law, sons- and daughters-in-law, godparents, godchildren, etc.<br />5. Friends with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents.<br />6. Servants with their respective spouses and children, if they are residents. To identify them, ask: In this household are there domestic workers, nurses or people who care for the members of your household, who live here? Include them at the end of the list of household members.<br />7. Guests. In order to identify the presence of guests, you can ask: Are there in this household people who pay to sleep here in your home? If the response is yes, you can also ask: In addition to lodging service, do they pay for meals?</div><p>Remember to only enter on the same household questionnaire those who pay for lodging services (and at the end of the member list) if they are one-person households; if they have formed households among themselves, on an independent questionnaire.</p>
<div class="i1">- Record the name of each member. Only write the name without the surnames. Do not enter nicknames or diminutives. Write the surnames only if there is more than one member with the same name. In the case of newborns who don't have a name yet, enter the initials NN (for no name) and refer to them this way when obtaining the information on the rest of the questions you must ask.<br />- How to record the members of the household. The people must be recorded as follows, without skipping any line, regardless of whether there are empty lines at the end. It is extremely important to continue with the sequence of this same questionnaire and the occupation and employment questionnaire.</div><p>After you have recorded the last member of the household, draw a red line at the end of the list; the line should cover the entire section VII sociodemographic characteristics. The purpose of this line is to differentiate the number of people entered in the first interview from those that will be recorded in subsequent visits, if new members join the household.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Once you have finished entering all the people who make up the household, in the first interview, ask the rest of the questions, person by person.</p>
<div class="i1">- Capacity of the sociodemographic questionnaire. it has space to record up to 15 people. if in the first interview you detect that the number of residents is greater than this number, use another questionnaire. When entering the rest of the people on the additional questionnaire, void the printed numbers on this new form and assign consecutive numbers 16, 17, 18 until you have recorded all the people who make up the household. Follow this same instruction in all households when there are not enough lines on a questionnaire to enter them all.<br />- Consistency of the information. Once you have recorded all the members of the household, before continuing with the interview, compare the number of people listed with the number entered in questions 1-4 and 4 in section V. Residents of the home and identification of households. If you detect any inconsistency, explain the situation to the informant and correct where necessary.<br />- Sequence to follow. Continue with question 7.</div><span class="em">Column 6. Residence status</span>
<br />As this section is only used starting with the second interview, the instructions for filling it out appear at the end of those for question 19.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the type of resident.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q3 LFS: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Technical Person Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |