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Intercensal Survey 2015 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2015
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MEX_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Type of credit used for buying this dwelling (MX2015A_DWCREDIT)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 274
End: 274
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
28. Financing
<br />In order to pay for or build this dwelling, did the owner get credit from:
<br />[Read the options and circle one code]</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 INFONAVIT, FOVISSSTE, or PEMEX<br />[] 2 FONHAPO<br />[] 3 A bank<br />[] 4 Another institution<br />[] 5 A loan from a relative, friend, or moneylender<br />[] 6 Used his/her own funds [skip to section II, list of people]</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 National Fund in Houses for Workers (INFONAVIT), Housing Fund of the Security and Social Services Institute of State Workers (FOVISSSTE), or Mexican Petroleums
2 National Popular Housing Fund (FONHAPO)
3 A bank
4 Another institution
5 A relative, friend or moneylender
6 Used your own resources
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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="em">28. Financing</span>
<br />The question aims to determine how the owner obtained the money or resources to build or pay the dwelling. Read the question mentioning each option until obtaining an affirmative answer and circle the appropriate code.</p>

<p>[Figures are omitted]</p>

<p>Takes into account the following considerations:</p>
<div class="i1">[] The INFONAVIT is the institute that manages the housing fund of workers who have Social Security.<br />[] The FOVISSSTE is the institute that manages the housing fund of workers of the federal government and autonomous organizations.<br />[] The PEMEX is an organization that provides to its workers credits to acquire or construct dwellings.<br />[] The FONHAPO is a popular housing fund which grants loans of small amount to low-income families to build a dwelling.<br />[] A bank refers to any banking institution.<br />[] Another institution refers to loans granted by housing institutions of the states, limited liability companies (Sofoles, Sofomes, and Sofipo), the Institute of Social Security for Mexican Armed Forces or another agency.<br />[] A friend, relative, or moneylender lent him/her money refers when the owner borrowed money from those persons to construct the dwelling.<br />[] He/she used his/her own resources when the owner bought the dwelling with his/her own money and did not get any type of credit of financing.</div><p>If the respondent answered that he/she obtained a mixed credit, i.e. a credit from INFONAVIT and another credit from a bank or FOVISSTE and also his/her own resources, record the first response. If the answer is "own resources", skip to Section II "List of People".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the type of credit used for buying the dwelling.
Universe
Mexico 2015: Private dwellings built for habitation, which were purchased or built by any household member [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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