National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), 2009
LFS-Q4, IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2009
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MEX_2009_LFS-Q4_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-Q4-H-H.dat
- MEX2009_LFS-Q4-P-H.dat
Type of economically active person (MX2009K_CLASE3)
Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q4-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
205
End:
205
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<div class="title">Employment and Occupation Questionnaire (Basic)</div></p>
<p><span class="h1">I. Occupation information</span></p>
<p>1. Now, I will ask you about [the respondent] employment status. During the past week, did [the respondent] work for at least 1 hour?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (skip to 3)<br />[] 2 No</div>
<p><span class="h1">I. Occupation information</span></p>
<p>1. Now, I will ask you about [the respondent] employment status. During the past week, did [the respondent] work for at least 1 hour?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Yes (skip to 3)<br />[] 2 No</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | NIU (not in universe) |
| 1 | Fully employed |
| 2 | Employed without pay |
| 3 | Absent from work but employed |
| 4 | Absent but employed with assured return |
| 5 | Unemployed waiting to start job |
| 6 | Unemployed actively seeking |
| 7 | Unemployed absent from work without pay or job attachment |
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">7.3 Set of questions I. Employment status</span>
<br />The purpose of this set of questions is to identify those who worked during the reference period, regardless of the number of jobs performed in case of having more than one, and to determine who, despite not having worked during said period, have one.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications
<br />Consider a person to perform an economic activity only if the person worked during the reference week, at least one hour during said period, or if the person did not work during said period, but had a job.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Cecilia worked the week before the interview.<br />- Adrian did not attend his job, but had a leave from ISSSTE to care for one of his children who was sick.</div><p>Regardless of the condition of legality or illegality with which an economic unit operates, both are entered, from the perspective of ENOE, within the framework of economic activity.
<br />The following table includes examples of the types of activities considered economic and non-economic, and the pertinent explanation:</p>
<p>Description of economic and non-economic activities:</p>
<p>Type of activity
<br /><span class="em">Circulating religious faith (of any creed)</span>
<br />The activity is economic:
<br />If the "promoter" regularly receives economic remuneration, in cash or in kind, regardless of the amount.</p>
<p>The activity is non-economic:
<br />If the predicant does not receive economic compensation, regardless of the time spent on this activity.</p>
<p>Type of activity
<br /><span class="em">Performing athletic activities independently</span></p>
<p>The activity is economic:
<br />If the independent athlete (cyclist, marathon runner, boxer) is dedicated to training to participate in sporting events in order to obtain economic income (prize-based), even if during the reference week they have not participated in any or only spent time training.</p>
<p>The activity is non-economic:
<br />If the athlete's goal is other than obtaining economic income as a way of life.</p>
<p><span class="em">Performing artistic activities independently</span>
<br />Only if the independent artist (engraver, musical composer, sculptor, painter) creates artistic works with the intention of obtaining economic income, even if during the reference week no work has been sold and they have only spent time working on it.</p>
<p>If the person creates artistic works for non-economic purposes.</p>
<p><span class="em">Paid domestic service</span>: sweeping, mopping, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, watering the garden, washing the car.</p>
<p>Performing one's own domestic chores or for another household, as long as economic remuneration is received for doing so.</p>
<p>Performing domestic chores in one's own household or another household without receiving economic remuneration in exchange for doing so.</p>
<p><span class="em">Care or attention of children, the elderly, sick or disabled</span></p>
<p>Only if the service is provided to people outside of one's own household, and economic remuneration is received for doing so.</p>
<p>If the service is provided to members of one's own household, or to the members of another household or the community, without receiving payment.</p>
<p>Acting, singing or playing instruments in public spaces (bars, restaurants, public roads)</p>
<p>As long as the singer or musician is the one who usually sets a value for their services.</p>
<p>If the value of the service is determined, via tips, through people who, voluntarily or involuntarily, attend or listen to the acting or performance.</p>
<p><span class="em">Conducting commercial activities</span>
<br />Regardless of whether it is a legal or illegal activity; or whether or not the economic unit has facilities to conduct such activities.</p>
<p>Activity performed by those who have or say they have a hearing, motor or visual disability, when it is used as a commercial strategy for the distribution of merchandise among the possible customers, accompanied or not by a text indicating that they suffer from any speaking or hearing disability, trying to force the sale of their products: holy cards, candies, books, etc.</p>
<p>It is considered an economic activity since, tacitly, there is an act of negotiation between a merchant and a customer; where the merchant invested economic resources for the development of their business, such that if their clients do not accept the product, they cannot have earnings, but only losses.</p>
<p>Robbery, extortion, fraud and corruption, as these are activities in which one of the parties does not consent.</p>
<p>The sale of marital property (personal or real property) or one's own organs (liver, kidney, blood).</p>
<p>Pawning personal property to obtain income.</p>
<p><span class="em">Conducting commercial activities</span>
<br />Clandestine activity, such as piracy, drug trafficking, the sale of other people's organs. It is considered an economic activity because there is a market that demands it. The status of legality or illegality is not taken into account.</p>
<p><span class="em">Self-employed car care in public spaces</span>
<br />If done only in exchange for a tip, even when the person has the permission of the shopping centers, auto service shops, cinemas, theaters. This is the case of <span class="lang">"franeleros"</span> (people who guard parked cars for a tip), windshield washers.</p>
<p>These are non-economic activities because they do not occur within the framework of negotiation, although those who perform them believe otherwise because they earn income from doing them. It is merely a unilateral transfer.</p>
<p><span class="em">Guarding residential or commercial areas</span>
<br />If the services are hired by the users or if the service provider is the person defining its value.
<br />If a person only receives tips for performing these services.</p>
<p><span class="em">Collecting and selling recyclable materials</span> (cardboard, aluminum, paper, plastic, glass)</p>
<p>Because there are people who demand this type of products. The activity is done, ultimately, in the framework of an economic transaction.</p>
<p><span class="em">The primary production sector</span>: agriculture, livestock, silviculture, hunting, fishing</p>
<p>Only if performed in order to obtain income.</p>
<p>Backyard agricultural production, agriculture and livestock for barter (exchange) and community agricultural production called <span class="lang">"mano vuelta" </span>(labor exchange): today I help you, tomorrow you help me.</p>
<p>The production of corn and beans for the purpose of self-consumption and agriculture and livestock production.</p>
<p>The collection of timber and non-timber products (roots, medicinal herbs, wild fruits, potting soil) to sell. Agriculture and livestock production in general for the purpose of self-consumption, except the production of corn and beans.</p>
<p>Hunting and fishing for recreational purposes or one's own consumption.</p>
<p>Collecting firewood for use in one's own household.</p>
<p><span class="em">Baggers in self-service shops or supermarkets</span>
<br />This work is considered an economic activity because there is an economic unit backing it.
<br />Regardless of whether their income depends on tips from the customers.</p>
<p><span class="em">Work by apprentices and trainees</span>
<br />Because they generate value for the economic units to which they contribute. Apprentices are people trained to perform a trade or occupation; trainees are people who expect to be hired by the economic unit to which they contribute. In both cases they work without receiving economic remuneration.</p>
<p><span class="em">Social service and professional practices</span>
<br />Because they contribute to the creation of goods and services of a productive unit. Regardless of whether or not they receive economic compensation for their performance. The provision of social service and performing professional practice may be carried out during the end of academic training.</p>
<p><span class="em">Attending training courses through the National Employment System</span>
<br />As long as the course is taken in the facilities of a company or institution. Considered a productive activity because its performance creates value to the benefit of the company while training takes place. Training in educational institution facilities by the state employment service, even when economic remuneration is received.</p>
<p>Construction or major repair of community owned real estate: irrigation dams, roads, clinics, schools, hospitals, parks, wells.</p>
<p>Because these are services that benefit the community by contributing to lengthening the useful life of a construction.</p>
<p>Major repair is understood as the expansion, construction, modification or reconstruction of an architectural space: building a fence, expanding a classroom, constructing a road, kiosk, wall, park, hall.</p>
<p>Major repair is considered an economic activity because the degree of transformation completed to the property is such that the architectural space is modified.</p>
<p>Making minor repairs for the benefit of the community.</p>
<p>Minor repair refers to activities such as painting facades or school benches, repairing electrical installations, water supply networks to community real estate (streets, roads, schools, hospitals, parks). Not considered an economic activity because it only contributes to correcting or conserving the buildings in operating condition.
<br />The purpose of this set of questions is to identify those who worked during the reference period, regardless of the number of jobs performed in case of having more than one, and to determine who, despite not having worked during said period, have one.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications
<br />Consider a person to perform an economic activity only if the person worked during the reference week, at least one hour during said period, or if the person did not work during said period, but had a job.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="i1">- Cecilia worked the week before the interview.<br />- Adrian did not attend his job, but had a leave from ISSSTE to care for one of his children who was sick.</div><p>Regardless of the condition of legality or illegality with which an economic unit operates, both are entered, from the perspective of ENOE, within the framework of economic activity.
<br />The following table includes examples of the types of activities considered economic and non-economic, and the pertinent explanation:</p>
<p>Description of economic and non-economic activities:</p>
<p>Type of activity
<br /><span class="em">Circulating religious faith (of any creed)</span>
<br />The activity is economic:
<br />If the "promoter" regularly receives economic remuneration, in cash or in kind, regardless of the amount.</p>
<p>The activity is non-economic:
<br />If the predicant does not receive economic compensation, regardless of the time spent on this activity.</p>
<p>Type of activity
<br /><span class="em">Performing athletic activities independently</span></p>
<p>The activity is economic:
<br />If the independent athlete (cyclist, marathon runner, boxer) is dedicated to training to participate in sporting events in order to obtain economic income (prize-based), even if during the reference week they have not participated in any or only spent time training.</p>
<p>The activity is non-economic:
<br />If the athlete's goal is other than obtaining economic income as a way of life.</p>
<p><span class="em">Performing artistic activities independently</span>
<br />Only if the independent artist (engraver, musical composer, sculptor, painter) creates artistic works with the intention of obtaining economic income, even if during the reference week no work has been sold and they have only spent time working on it.</p>
<p>If the person creates artistic works for non-economic purposes.</p>
<p><span class="em">Paid domestic service</span>: sweeping, mopping, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, watering the garden, washing the car.</p>
<p>Performing one's own domestic chores or for another household, as long as economic remuneration is received for doing so.</p>
<p>Performing domestic chores in one's own household or another household without receiving economic remuneration in exchange for doing so.</p>
<p><span class="em">Care or attention of children, the elderly, sick or disabled</span></p>
<p>Only if the service is provided to people outside of one's own household, and economic remuneration is received for doing so.</p>
<p>If the service is provided to members of one's own household, or to the members of another household or the community, without receiving payment.</p>
<p>Acting, singing or playing instruments in public spaces (bars, restaurants, public roads)</p>
<p>As long as the singer or musician is the one who usually sets a value for their services.</p>
<p>If the value of the service is determined, via tips, through people who, voluntarily or involuntarily, attend or listen to the acting or performance.</p>
<p><span class="em">Conducting commercial activities</span>
<br />Regardless of whether it is a legal or illegal activity; or whether or not the economic unit has facilities to conduct such activities.</p>
<p>Activity performed by those who have or say they have a hearing, motor or visual disability, when it is used as a commercial strategy for the distribution of merchandise among the possible customers, accompanied or not by a text indicating that they suffer from any speaking or hearing disability, trying to force the sale of their products: holy cards, candies, books, etc.</p>
<p>It is considered an economic activity since, tacitly, there is an act of negotiation between a merchant and a customer; where the merchant invested economic resources for the development of their business, such that if their clients do not accept the product, they cannot have earnings, but only losses.</p>
<p>Robbery, extortion, fraud and corruption, as these are activities in which one of the parties does not consent.</p>
<p>The sale of marital property (personal or real property) or one's own organs (liver, kidney, blood).</p>
<p>Pawning personal property to obtain income.</p>
<p><span class="em">Conducting commercial activities</span>
<br />Clandestine activity, such as piracy, drug trafficking, the sale of other people's organs. It is considered an economic activity because there is a market that demands it. The status of legality or illegality is not taken into account.</p>
<p><span class="em">Self-employed car care in public spaces</span>
<br />If done only in exchange for a tip, even when the person has the permission of the shopping centers, auto service shops, cinemas, theaters. This is the case of <span class="lang">"franeleros"</span> (people who guard parked cars for a tip), windshield washers.</p>
<p>These are non-economic activities because they do not occur within the framework of negotiation, although those who perform them believe otherwise because they earn income from doing them. It is merely a unilateral transfer.</p>
<p><span class="em">Guarding residential or commercial areas</span>
<br />If the services are hired by the users or if the service provider is the person defining its value.
<br />If a person only receives tips for performing these services.</p>
<p><span class="em">Collecting and selling recyclable materials</span> (cardboard, aluminum, paper, plastic, glass)</p>
<p>Because there are people who demand this type of products. The activity is done, ultimately, in the framework of an economic transaction.</p>
<p><span class="em">The primary production sector</span>: agriculture, livestock, silviculture, hunting, fishing</p>
<p>Only if performed in order to obtain income.</p>
<p>Backyard agricultural production, agriculture and livestock for barter (exchange) and community agricultural production called <span class="lang">"mano vuelta" </span>(labor exchange): today I help you, tomorrow you help me.</p>
<p>The production of corn and beans for the purpose of self-consumption and agriculture and livestock production.</p>
<p>The collection of timber and non-timber products (roots, medicinal herbs, wild fruits, potting soil) to sell. Agriculture and livestock production in general for the purpose of self-consumption, except the production of corn and beans.</p>
<p>Hunting and fishing for recreational purposes or one's own consumption.</p>
<p>Collecting firewood for use in one's own household.</p>
<p><span class="em">Baggers in self-service shops or supermarkets</span>
<br />This work is considered an economic activity because there is an economic unit backing it.
<br />Regardless of whether their income depends on tips from the customers.</p>
<p><span class="em">Work by apprentices and trainees</span>
<br />Because they generate value for the economic units to which they contribute. Apprentices are people trained to perform a trade or occupation; trainees are people who expect to be hired by the economic unit to which they contribute. In both cases they work without receiving economic remuneration.</p>
<p><span class="em">Social service and professional practices</span>
<br />Because they contribute to the creation of goods and services of a productive unit. Regardless of whether or not they receive economic compensation for their performance. The provision of social service and performing professional practice may be carried out during the end of academic training.</p>
<p><span class="em">Attending training courses through the National Employment System</span>
<br />As long as the course is taken in the facilities of a company or institution. Considered a productive activity because its performance creates value to the benefit of the company while training takes place. Training in educational institution facilities by the state employment service, even when economic remuneration is received.</p>
<p>Construction or major repair of community owned real estate: irrigation dams, roads, clinics, schools, hospitals, parks, wells.</p>
<p>Because these are services that benefit the community by contributing to lengthening the useful life of a construction.</p>
<p>Major repair is understood as the expansion, construction, modification or reconstruction of an architectural space: building a fence, expanding a classroom, constructing a road, kiosk, wall, park, hall.</p>
<p>Major repair is considered an economic activity because the degree of transformation completed to the property is such that the architectural space is modified.</p>
<p>Making minor repairs for the benefit of the community.</p>
<p>Minor repair refers to activities such as painting facades or school benches, repairing electrical installations, water supply networks to community real estate (streets, roads, schools, hospitals, parks). Not considered an economic activity because it only contributes to correcting or conserving the buildings in operating condition.
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the type of economically active person.
Universe
Mexico 2009 Q4 LFS: Present persons age 12+ who were economically active
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Work Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |