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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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Understanding of indigenous languages (MX2010A_COMPINDG)

Data file: MEX2010_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 274
End: 274
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="MX10A431 MX10A432 MX10A433 MX10A434 MX10A435 MX10A436 MX10A437 MX10A438 MX10A439 MX10A440 MX10A441 MX10A442"><span class="em">For persons age 3 or older</span><br />[Questions 12-20 were asked of persons age 3 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A434">15. Understanding of indigenous language<br />Does [the respondent] understand an indigenous language?<br /><div class="i1">Circle only one code.<br /><br />[] 1 Yes<br />[] 3 No</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
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="MX10A431 MX10A432 MX10A433 MX10A434 MX10A435 MX10A436 MX10A437 MX10A438 MX10A439 MX10A440 MX10A441 MX10A442"><span class="em">For people age 3 or older.</span><br />[Questions 12-20 are for persons age 3 or older]<br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="MX10A434"><span class="em">15. Understanding of indigenous language</span><br />Through this question the people who do not speak an indigenous language but understand it are identified.<br /><br />Investigate further when the informer answers "A little", "A little bit", "Some", among others, and ask, "Does Juan understand the dialogue between two people who speak the language?" If the response is yes, circle code 1, but if the response is no or "A little" is affirmed, circle code 3.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable records whether the respondent understands any indigenous language.
Universe
Mexico 2010: Non-speakers of indigenous languages [discrepancies: Type I 0.3%; type II none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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