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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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Sep 03, 2025
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Position at work (MX2015A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 266
End: 266
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
32. Position at work
<br />In the job was [the respondent] a:
<br />[Read the options and circle one code] </p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Employee or worker<br />[] 2 Day worker or laborer<br />[] 3 Helper with pay<br />[] 4 Owner or employer (has paid employees) [skip to question 34]<br />[] 5 Self-employed (has no paid employees) [skip to question 34] <br />[] 6 Worker without payment [skip to question 35]</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employee or worker
2 Laborer
3 Assistant (paid)
4 Owner or employer
5 Self-employed
6 Unpaid worker
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">32. Position at work</span>
<br />This question identifies the position held by workers in the business, company, or place where they worked during the week preceding the interview. Read the question and each option until obtaining an affirmative answer and circle the appropriate code.</p>

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

<p>Take into account the following considerations:</p>
<div class="i1">[] A person is employed, workman, laborer, or farmworker when he/she worked or helped in a business, private company, or a government institution in exchange for a wage or salary.</div><p>Laborers and farmhands generally perform their occupation in agriculture or construction.
<br />Note that managers or administrators are not always owners of the business or company, but they are employees.</p>
<div class="i1">[] Employers and self-employed people own their business or company, but they distinguish between them because employers hire workers in exchange for a wage; while self-employed people do not hire workers, although it may be the case that they receive support from unpaid workers.<br />[] A person is unpaid worker when he/she helped in businesses, shops, workshops, farms, family or non-family agricultural plots without receiving a cash payment.</div><p>When the answer is employee or laborer, farmland, or paid assistant, continue with question 33 "Work benefits".</p>

<p>If the answer is boss, employer, or self-employed, go to question 34 "Income from work"; if the person is an unpaid worker, go to question "Business, company, or workplace".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's position at work.
Universe
Mexico 2015: Persons age 12+ who are working [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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