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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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Person weight (PERWT)

Data file: MEX2009_LFS-Q4-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 2
Start: 34
End: 41
Width: 8
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Description

Definition
PERWT indicates the number of persons in the actual population represented by the person in the sample.

For the samples that are truly weighted (see the comparability discussion), PERWT must be used to yield accurate statistics for the population.

NOTE: PERWT has 2 implied decimal places. That is, the last two digits of the eight-digit variable are decimal digits, but there is no actual decimal in the data.

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Concept
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Technical Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
PERWT is an 8-digit numeric variable with 2 implied decimal places. See the variable description.
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