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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
Producer(s)
Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Sep 03, 2025
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  • MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Third type of transport from the dwelling to the workplace (MX2015A_TRANWORK3)

Data file: MEX2015_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 295
End: 295
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
40. Mode of transportation to work
<br />How does [the respondent] usually get to work?
<br />[Circle up to three codes]</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1 Bus, taxi, or collective transport<br />[] 2 Subway, electric bus, or light rail<br />[] 3 Private vehicle (car, truck or motorcycle)<br />[] 4 School bus<br />[] 5 Bicycle<br />[] 6 Walking<br />[] 7 Other</div>
Categories
Value Category
3 Private vehicle (car, van or motorcycle)
4 Work transport
5 Bicycle
6 Walking
7 Other mean
8 No use of more than one type of transportation or 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">40. Mode of transportation to work</span>
<br />This question identifies how the person is transported to work. Read the question and circle the answer given by the informant. Take into account that you can circle up to three transportation means when those are used in the same way.</p>

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

<p>For example, there are people who take a truck, then take the subway and then walk to their job. In this case, circle all three media.</p>

<p>When the informant indicates that some days he/she uses a determined transportation mean and other days he/she uses another different transportation mean, ask him/her to identify the one used most often.</p>

<p>If the answer is trolleybus circle code 1 "bus, taxi, or collective transport".</p>

<p>If the informant mentioned a mode of transportation not included in the options, circle code 7 "other".

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the usual type of transport from the dwelling to the person's workplace.
Universe
Mexico 2015: Persons age 12+ who are working and travel from the dwelling to the job [discrepancies: type I none; type II 28.9%]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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