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
During the last week, hours spent caring or attending without payment, exclusively to children, the elderly, the sick (MX2009J_P9_H2)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q3-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
704
End:
706
Width:
3
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Basic)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">IX. Other activities</span></p>
<p>9. During the past week, how much time did [the respondent] spend on:</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options, circle those mentioned, and ask for time spent and record it)<br /><br />[] 1 Studying or attending work training (including time spent doing schoolwork)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 2 Acting as the primary caregiver for children or sick/elderly/disabled persons without pay (bathing them, changing their clothes, providing transportation)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 3 Building or remodeling his/her home?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 4 Repairing his/her home, furniture, appliances, or vehicles?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 5 Doing routine housework (laundry, ironing, preparing/serving food, sweeping)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 6 Volunteering in his/her community (food pantries, caring for hospital patients)</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 0 For data input use only<br /><br />[Response options for spaces provided above:]</div><div class="i2">"98" in hours and "00" in minutes - The respondent performed that activity but is unsure of how much time was spent.<br />"99" in hours and "00" in minutes - Unsure if the respondent performed that activity.</div>
<p><span class="h1">IX. Other activities</span></p>
<p>9. During the past week, how much time did [the respondent] spend on:</p>
<div class="i1">(Read the options, circle those mentioned, and ask for time spent and record it)<br /><br />[] 1 Studying or attending work training (including time spent doing schoolwork)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 2 Acting as the primary caregiver for children or sick/elderly/disabled persons without pay (bathing them, changing their clothes, providing transportation)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 3 Building or remodeling his/her home?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 4 Repairing his/her home, furniture, appliances, or vehicles?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 5 Doing routine housework (laundry, ironing, preparing/serving food, sweeping)?</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 6 Volunteering in his/her community (food pantries, caring for hospital patients)</div><div class="i2">_ _ Hours and<br />_ _ Minutes</div><div class="i1">[] 0 For data input use only<br /><br />[Response options for spaces provided above:]</div><div class="i2">"98" in hours and "00" in minutes - The respondent performed that activity but is unsure of how much time was spent.<br />"99" in hours and "00" in minutes - Unsure if the respondent performed that activity.</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 999 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 000 | 0 hours |
| 001 | 1 hour |
| 002 | 2 hours |
| 003 | 3 |
| 004 | 4 |
| 005 | 5 |
| 006 | 6 |
| 007 | 7 |
| 008 | 8 |
| 009 | 9 |
| 010 | 10 |
| 011 | 11 |
| 012 | 12 |
| 013 | 13 |
| 014 | 14 |
| 015 | 15 |
| 016 | 16 |
| 017 | 17 |
| 018 | 18 |
| 019 | 19 |
| 020 | 20 |
| 021 | 21 |
| 022 | 22 |
| 023 | 23 |
| 024 | 24 |
| 025 | 25 |
| 026 | 26 |
| 027 | 27 |
| 028 | 28 |
| 029 | 29 |
| 030 | 30 |
| 031 | 31 |
| 032 | 32 |
| 033 | 33 |
| 034 | 34 |
| 035 | 35 |
| 036 | 36 |
| 037 | 37 |
| 038 | 38 |
| 039 | 39 |
| 040 | 40 |
| 041 | 41 |
| 042 | 42 |
| 043 | 43 |
| 044 | 44 |
| 045 | 45 |
| 046 | 46 |
| 047 | 47 |
| 048 | 48 |
| 049 | 49 |
| 050 | 50 |
| 051 | 51 |
| 052 | 52 |
| 053 | 53 |
| 054 | 54 |
| 055 | 55 |
| 056 | 56 |
| 057 | 57 |
| 058 | 58 |
| 059 | 59 |
| 060 | 60 |
| 061 | 61 |
| 062 | 62 |
| 063 | 63 |
| 064 | 64 |
| 065 | 65 |
| 066 | 66 |
| 067 | 67 |
| 068 | 68 |
| 070 | 70 |
| 072 | 72 |
| 073 | 73 |
| 074 | 74 |
| 075 | 75 |
| 077 | 77 |
| 078 | 78 |
| 080 | 80 |
| 081 | 81 |
| 083 | 83 |
| 084 | 84 |
| 085 | 85 |
| 086 | 86 |
| 088 | 88 |
| 090 | 90 |
| 091 | 91 |
| 093 | 93 |
| 095 | 95 |
| 997 | Did activity but unsure of time |
| 998 | Does not know if they did activity |
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">7.13 Battery XI. Other activities</span>
<br />This last battery of questions in the COE seeks obtain information about people 12 years of age and older who during the week before the interview spent part of their time in activities not considered economic, as well as the amount of time they spent.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 11</span>
<br />This question is asked to the population 12 years of age and older to find out if they performed non-economic activities for their own benefit, that of their household, their home or community, and how much time they spent on them during the week before the interview.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- How to obtain and record the information. When reading each response option, take the necessary pauses to guaranty that the informant, along with you, is adding up the total amount of time dedicated to the type of activities considered in each option. For example, when asking how much time was dedicated to child care without receiving payment for doing so, pause so the informant has time to count the time spent on this activity, record the amount indicated in the hours and minutes field; then continue asking for the time dedicated to care for the elderly (another pause to sum up the time invested in the two activities listed so far); continue in this way until you ask for the last option.<br />- The interviewee spent time on these activities but doesn't know how much time. Circle the option for the respective activity and then enter code 98 in the hours field and 00 in the field provided for minutes.<br />- It is Unknown if the interviewee spent time on any of the activities. Enter the code 99 in hours and 00 in minutes.<br /><br />1. Studying or taking training courses (includes time dedicated to completing schoolwork)</div><div class="i2">- Studying within the formal education system or informally.<br />- Completing homework, attending a general training course (human development, language, computer tools, arts and crafts, etc.) performing research activities, preparing exams, or preparing school documents or professional thesis.<br />- Reading technical documents or consulting the Internet to keep up to date or for professional self-education.<br />- Participating in extracurricular activities, such as sports, arts (dance, music, plastic arts).</div><div class="i1">2. Caring for or attending to, unpaid, exclusively children, the elderly, sick or disabled (bathing them, changing them, moving them)</div><div class="i2">- Caring for or attending to children, the elderly, sick or disabled, exclusively, that is, without doing any other activity at the same time.<br />Attending to and caring for other people refers to performing tasks consisting of accompanying them or taking them to receive medical care or therapy, reading them a book, giving them medications (if they are sick), feeding them, bathing them, doing homework or attending school meetings, bringing them to the park or to social events, etc.</div><div class="i2">- Include those who have stated they spend time attending to or caring for people from another household.<br />- If, when reading this option, you detect that a person receives some payment for performing this activity, restart the sequence entering them as employed in battery of questions 1 or in 7 if it is a second occupation.</div><div class="i1">3. Building or expanding their home</div><div class="i2">- Conducting activities aimed at building or expanding their own home, such as: building a fence, installing flooring, placing foundations or beams.</div><div class="i1">4. Repairing or maintaining their home, furniture, home appliances or vehicles.</div><div class="i2">- Making minor repairs to their home, such as painting, restoring walls, making repairs to the plumbing system, weatherproofing.<br />- Repairing or maintaining their vehicle: washing, polishing, changing the oil.<br />- Repairing home appliances: irons, radios, televisions.</div><div class="i1">5. Doing household chores (washing, ironing, preparing and serving meals)</div><div class="i2">- Cleaning their home, such as making beds, sweeping, dusting, mopping floors, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, darning, etc.<br />- Buying groceries, preparing and serving meals.<br />- Carrying water from another home or another site: well, river or stream, for their household activities.<br />- When a domestic worker resides in the home where the interview takes place, adjust the question: "How many hours do you spend cleaning your own room?", so as not to confuse these tasks with those that are part of their job.</div><div class="i1">6. Providing unpaid services to the community</div><div class="i2">Unpaid community service. That volunteer service whose purpose is to benefit all or part of the community, without receiving any type of economic remuneration. The community service may consist of repairing, remodeling and building courts, care modules, streets, roads, parks, bridges, etc., or performing various activities, such as medical or psychological care, cultural activities, sports, preparing food and recreational activities, among others.<br />- These are services that address the priority needs and demands of vulnerable or at-risk groups such as children, adolescents, the elderly, women, the sick and disabled.</div><div class="i2">- Collaborating with service, charity or public health societies or clubs, such as the volunteer ladies of the Red Cross, the Rotary Club.<br />- Voluntarily holding honorary positions, such as block leader, electoral precinct president or secretary, tenant's commissioner.<br />- Taking training courses to hold honorary positions, such as electoral precinct president or secretary, election scrutineer.<br />- Teaching literacy, education and training courses without being paid.<br />- Collaborating in religious activities, such as altar server, catechist.<br />- Organizing or participating in the collection of food, clothing or other belongings for the benefit of the community.<br />- Caring for or attending to children, the elderly or disabled as part of social work in institutions like retirement homes, shelters, hospitals or boarding schools.<br /><br />Exclude:<br />- Those who state they have spent time participating in programs like CONAFE, as they are considered employed.<br />- Those who spend time in direct donation activities, that is, people who deliver donations to another person or household in particular, as the donation is not for the benefit of the community.<br />You are finished filling out the individual questionnaire. If there is another member who is 12 years of age or older, use another COE.</div>
<br />This last battery of questions in the COE seeks obtain information about people 12 years of age and older who during the week before the interview spent part of their time in activities not considered economic, as well as the amount of time they spent.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 11</span>
<br />This question is asked to the population 12 years of age and older to find out if they performed non-economic activities for their own benefit, that of their household, their home or community, and how much time they spent on them during the week before the interview.</p>
<p>[Omitted figure]</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- How to obtain and record the information. When reading each response option, take the necessary pauses to guaranty that the informant, along with you, is adding up the total amount of time dedicated to the type of activities considered in each option. For example, when asking how much time was dedicated to child care without receiving payment for doing so, pause so the informant has time to count the time spent on this activity, record the amount indicated in the hours and minutes field; then continue asking for the time dedicated to care for the elderly (another pause to sum up the time invested in the two activities listed so far); continue in this way until you ask for the last option.<br />- The interviewee spent time on these activities but doesn't know how much time. Circle the option for the respective activity and then enter code 98 in the hours field and 00 in the field provided for minutes.<br />- It is Unknown if the interviewee spent time on any of the activities. Enter the code 99 in hours and 00 in minutes.<br /><br />1. Studying or taking training courses (includes time dedicated to completing schoolwork)</div><div class="i2">- Studying within the formal education system or informally.<br />- Completing homework, attending a general training course (human development, language, computer tools, arts and crafts, etc.) performing research activities, preparing exams, or preparing school documents or professional thesis.<br />- Reading technical documents or consulting the Internet to keep up to date or for professional self-education.<br />- Participating in extracurricular activities, such as sports, arts (dance, music, plastic arts).</div><div class="i1">2. Caring for or attending to, unpaid, exclusively children, the elderly, sick or disabled (bathing them, changing them, moving them)</div><div class="i2">- Caring for or attending to children, the elderly, sick or disabled, exclusively, that is, without doing any other activity at the same time.<br />Attending to and caring for other people refers to performing tasks consisting of accompanying them or taking them to receive medical care or therapy, reading them a book, giving them medications (if they are sick), feeding them, bathing them, doing homework or attending school meetings, bringing them to the park or to social events, etc.</div><div class="i2">- Include those who have stated they spend time attending to or caring for people from another household.<br />- If, when reading this option, you detect that a person receives some payment for performing this activity, restart the sequence entering them as employed in battery of questions 1 or in 7 if it is a second occupation.</div><div class="i1">3. Building or expanding their home</div><div class="i2">- Conducting activities aimed at building or expanding their own home, such as: building a fence, installing flooring, placing foundations or beams.</div><div class="i1">4. Repairing or maintaining their home, furniture, home appliances or vehicles.</div><div class="i2">- Making minor repairs to their home, such as painting, restoring walls, making repairs to the plumbing system, weatherproofing.<br />- Repairing or maintaining their vehicle: washing, polishing, changing the oil.<br />- Repairing home appliances: irons, radios, televisions.</div><div class="i1">5. Doing household chores (washing, ironing, preparing and serving meals)</div><div class="i2">- Cleaning their home, such as making beds, sweeping, dusting, mopping floors, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, darning, etc.<br />- Buying groceries, preparing and serving meals.<br />- Carrying water from another home or another site: well, river or stream, for their household activities.<br />- When a domestic worker resides in the home where the interview takes place, adjust the question: "How many hours do you spend cleaning your own room?", so as not to confuse these tasks with those that are part of their job.</div><div class="i1">6. Providing unpaid services to the community</div><div class="i2">Unpaid community service. That volunteer service whose purpose is to benefit all or part of the community, without receiving any type of economic remuneration. The community service may consist of repairing, remodeling and building courts, care modules, streets, roads, parks, bridges, etc., or performing various activities, such as medical or psychological care, cultural activities, sports, preparing food and recreational activities, among others.<br />- These are services that address the priority needs and demands of vulnerable or at-risk groups such as children, adolescents, the elderly, women, the sick and disabled.</div><div class="i2">- Collaborating with service, charity or public health societies or clubs, such as the volunteer ladies of the Red Cross, the Rotary Club.<br />- Voluntarily holding honorary positions, such as block leader, electoral precinct president or secretary, tenant's commissioner.<br />- Taking training courses to hold honorary positions, such as electoral precinct president or secretary, election scrutineer.<br />- Teaching literacy, education and training courses without being paid.<br />- Collaborating in religious activities, such as altar server, catechist.<br />- Organizing or participating in the collection of food, clothing or other belongings for the benefit of the community.<br />- Caring for or attending to children, the elderly or disabled as part of social work in institutions like retirement homes, shelters, hospitals or boarding schools.<br /><br />Exclude:<br />- Those who state they have spent time participating in programs like CONAFE, as they are considered employed.<br />- Those who spend time in direct donation activities, that is, people who deliver donations to another person or household in particular, as the donation is not for the benefit of the community.<br />You are finished filling out the individual questionnaire. If there is another member who is 12 years of age or older, use another COE.</div>
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the number of hours spent caring or attending without payment, exclusively to children, the elderly, or the sick during last week.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q3 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who engaged in specified activity
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Other Person Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |