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Population and Housing Census 2010 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2010
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MEX_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Position at work (MX2010A_CLASSWK)

Data file: MEX2010_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 316
End: 316
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h3">III. Personal characteristics</span></p>

<p>Now I am going to ask you about (name): ________
<br />Copy the name of the person from section II</p>

<p><svar v="MX10A449 MX10A450 MX10A451 MX10A452 MX10A453 MX10A454 MX10A455 MX10A456 MX10A457 MX10A458 MX10A459 MX10A460 MX10A461 MX10A462 MX10A463 MX10A464 MX10A465 MX10A466 MX10A467 MX10A468 MX10A469 MX10A470 MX10A471"><span class="em">For person age 12 or older</span><br />[Questions 24-35 were asked of persons age 12 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A454">29. Position at work<br />In his job last week was [the respondent] a/an:<br /><div class="i1">[Question 29 was asked of persons age 12 or older who worked or helped in economic activity last week, per questions 26 and 27.]<br /><br />Read the options until you receive an affirmative response and then circle only one code<br /><br />[] 1 Employee or worker<br />[] 2 Day worker or laborer<br />[] 3 Helper<br />[] 4 Employer (hires employees) (go to 31)<br />[] 5 Self employed (does not hire employees) (go to 31)<br />[] 6 Unpaid family worker (go to 31)</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Employee or worker
2 Laborer
3 Assistant/helper
4 Owner or employer
5 Self-employed
6 Unpaid family 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="h3">6.5 Section III. Characteristics of the people</span></p>

<p>In this section the information of the people who inhabit the dwelling, like the sex, age, level of studies, income, among others, is obtained.</p>

<p>Before requesting the information for each person, copy all the names in the spaces designated for them, and for each person start with the phrase: "Now I'm going to ask about (mention the name of the person you previously noted)", so that the informer knows about whom you will be asking the information.</p>

<p><svar v="MX10A449 MX10A450 MX10A451 MX10A452 MX10A453 MX10A454 MX10A455 MX10A456 MX10A457 MX10A458 MX10A459 MX10A460 MX10A461 MX10A462 MX10A463 MX10A464 MX10A465 MX10A467 MX10A468 MX10A469 MX10A470 MX10A471"><span class="em">For persons age 12 or older</span><br />[Questions 24-35 are for persons age 12 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A454"><span class="em">29. Position at work</span><br />This question finds out if at work the person is employee, worker, day-laborer, unskilled laborer, helper, boss, worker, self-employed, or a family worker without pay.<br /><br />An employed person is:<br /><ul class="b1">
<li>Employee or worker, if he/she works for a business, private company, or government company for payment</li>

<li>Day laborer or unskilled laborer, if he/she works for payment in agriculture or construction</li>

<li>Helper, if he/she works in exchange for a payment of salary by helping at the business or company.</li>

<li>Owner or employer, if he/she has his/her own business and is distinguished by contracting salary workers or day laborers.</li>

<li>Self-employed, if he/she works on his/her own and doesn't contract or have salary workers, but can receive help from other people not receiving pay.</li>

<li>Unpaid family worker, if he/she helps with the family businesses, stores, workshops, farms, agricultural parcels without receiving any pay for the work he/she does. This also includes the people who helped non-family businesses, always and whenever he/she hasn't received any pay.</li>
</ul><br /><br />When the person completed chores in outside homes, circle code 5.<br /><br />Also, circle this code for those that worked only in exchange for a commission. But if he/she receives a base salary as well, then circle code 1.<br /><br />When the informer has a doubt, investigate further with other questions like: "Juan works for someone? Do they pay Juan an income or a salary? Does Juan work in his own business? Does Juan contract workers?" among others.<br /><br />If the person had more than one job, only record the job position of his/her principal occupation.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 113]</span><br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable records the respondent's position at work.
Universe
Mexico 2010: Persons age 12+ who are economically active [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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