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XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 2000
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MEX_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Number of international migrants (MX2000A_MIGN)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 249
End: 250
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX00A047 MX00A048">1. Condition of international migration<br /><br />In the last five years, which means from January 1995 to the present, has a person who lives or lived with you (in this household) gone to live in another country? Circle only one answer.<br /><br /><div class="i1">1 Yes<br />2 No (End of the interview)</div><br /><br />2. Number of persons<br /><br />How many people?<br /><div class="i1">_____Write the number</div><br /><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
15 15
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="h2">5.4 International migration</span></p>

<p>The objective of this section is to find out the number of people who left to go live in another country in the last five years, even though it may have been for a short time or they may have already returned.</p>

<p>People who enter or leave the country for vacation, work assignment, visits to relatives or another reason that doesn't entail a change of residence are not considered migrants.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the number of international migrants in the household.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Household with an international migrant member [discrepancies: none]

concept

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