Sample characteristics: Mexico
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | VIII General Population and Housing Census, 1960 |
| Statistical agency | Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio |
| Population universe | Mexican residents; foreign born living more than 6 months in Mexico, excluding diplomatic personnel |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | June 8, 1960 |
| Field work period | June 8, 1960 |
| Questionnaire | Separate enumeration form for each census block |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Representative sample of individuals. |
| Sample fraction | 1.5% |
| Sample size (person records) | 502800 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor = 66.7. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Not available in microdata sample |
| Collective dwellings | Not identified |
| Smallest geography | State |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Not defined |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | IX General Population and Housing Census, 1970 |
| Statistical agency | Dirección General de Estadística, Secretaría de Industria y Comercio |
| Population universe | Mexican residents, excluding foreign diplomats; includes Mexican diplomats, military, and sailors, including their families, resident in other countries |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | January 28, 1970 |
| Field work period | Most work was completed on enumeration day |
| Questionnaire | Separate enumeration form for each dwelling |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every hundredth dwelling, after a random start. |
| Sample fraction | 1% |
| Sample size (person records) | 483405 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor = 100. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not identified |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Not defined |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | XI General Population and Housing Census, 1990 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries; foreign residents, not including foreigners in diplomatic service or their families. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers.
The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | March 12, 1990 |
| Field work period | March 12-16, 1990 |
| Questionnaire | Separate enumeration form for each dwelling |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of private dwellings. Geographically sorted by population size (municipality and locality) to increase precision. Samples executed independently for each federal entity. |
| Sample fraction | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 8118242 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor = 10. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Building used to shelter people for reasons of assistance, health, education, religion, confinement or service |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Population and Dwelling Count 1995 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries, as well as foreign residents. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers.
The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad and group quarters. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | 1995-11-05 00:00:00 |
| Field work period | October 23-November 18, 1995 |
| Questionnaire | Long (f1) and short (f2) dwelling enumeration forms; long form was applied to a sample survey. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Stratified cluster design; stratified geographically by similar socio-economic characteristics. Clusters are defined as enumeration areas (AGEB). About fifty dwellings within a cluster are included in the sample. Sample fraction depends upon demographic heterogeneity of municipalities. The sample was designed to yield representative statistics for all dwellings. |
| Sample fraction | 0.004 |
| Sample size (person records) | 332061 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by census agency should be used for most types of analysis. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Building used to shelter people for reasons of assistance, health, education, religion, confinement or service |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | XII General Population and Housing Census, 2000 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries, as well as foreign residents. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers.
The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad and group quarters. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | February 14, 2000 |
| Field work period | February 7-18, 2000 |
| Questionnaire | Long (f1) and short (f2) dwelling enumeration forms; long form was applied to a sample survey. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Stratified cluster design; stratified geographically by municipality and urban area. Clusters are defined as enumeration areas (AGEB), blocks of dwellings or localities. All dwellings within a cluster are included in sample. Sample fraction depends upon demographic heterogeneity of municipalities. The sample was designed to yield representative statistics for all localities with 50,000 inhabitants or more. |
| Sample fraction | 10.6% |
| Sample size (person records) | 10099182 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by census agency should be used for most types of analysis. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Building used to shelter people for reasons of assistance, health, education, religion, confinement or service |
| Special populations | Non-resident migrants available, but not included in the current version of the microdata. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Count of Population and Dwellings, 2005 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries, as well as foreign residents. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers.
The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad and group quarters. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | 2005-10-17 00:00:00 |
| Field work period | October 4-29, 2005 |
| Questionnaire | Dwelling enumeration and dwelling inventory forms. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Systematic sample of every tenth private dwelling after a random start. Selection was accomplished by a register of private dwellings maintained by INEGI. Where the field worker encountered a building that was no longer occupied, the immediately following occupied dwelling was substituted. |
| Sample fraction | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 10284550 |
| Sample weights | Self-weighting.
Expansion factor = 10. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | Building used to shelter people for reasons of assistance, health, education, religion, confinement or service |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2010 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries, as well as foreign residents. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers.
The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad and group quarters. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | 2010-06-12 00:00:00 |
| Field work period | May 31-June 25, 2010 |
| Questionnaire | Long and short dwelling enumeration forms; long form was applied to a sample survey. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Estimated undercount | 1.3% from post-enumeration survey |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | One stage stratified cluster sample by municipality. Enumeration areas (blocks of dwellings within a locality) selected by simple random sampling within strata. |
| Sample fraction | 10% |
| Sample size (person records) | 11938402 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by census agency should be used for most types of analysis. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | This is the space generally delineated by walls and roofs of any material, with an independent entrance, that was constructed for the habitation of people, or that at the moment of data collection is used to live- that is, to sleep, prepare food, eat, and protect oneself from the environment. The independent entrance permits the occupants to enter from and go out to the street, the field, or rather the space common to other dwellings, like a hallway, patio, or stairs, without passing through the rooms of another dwelling. |
| Households | Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses |
| Collective dwellings | This is a premise intended to provide housing for large groups of people that submit themselves to living and behavior norms based on motives of health, education, discipline, religion, work, and social assistance, amongst others, and that in the moment of the data collection has habitual residents. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | Intercensal Survey 2015 |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | All people that reside in the country at the moment of the interview, whether nationals or foreigners. This includes Mexicans that cross the border daily to work in another country. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | March 15, 2015 |
| Field work period | March 2 to 27, 2015 |
| Questionnaire | Long and short dwelling enumeration forms; long form was applied to a sample survey. |
| Type of fieldwork | Self-enumeration or direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | One stage cluster sample stratified by municipality size. |
| Sample fraction | 9.5% |
| Sample size (person records) | 11344365 |
| Sample weights | Stratified cluster sample based on municipality size, drawn by the statistical office. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | The immediate space where a human being's daily life takes place. It provides its inhabitants privacy and protection from the natureal and social environment and it must be sufficient to fulfill the vital domestic duties and activities; additonally it must have basic services and sanitary facilities that ensure proper health and guarantee the human development and social integration. |
| Households | A unit considting of one or more people, linked by family ties or not, and live together regularly in the same dwelling. |
| Collective dwellings | Premise intended to provide housing for groups of people that submit themselves to living and behavior norms based on motives of health, education, discipline, religion, work, and social assistance, amongst others, and who are living in the place as habitual residents at the moment of data collection. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Census |
| Title | 2020 Population and Housing Census |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | Habitual residents and the housing units in the country. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | March 15, 2020 |
| Field work period | Four weeks (from March 2nd to 27th, 2020) |
| Questionnaire | Long and short dwelling enumeration forms; long form was applied to a sample survey. |
| Type of fieldwork | Direct enumeration |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | One stage stratified cluster sample by municipality. Enumeration areas (blocks of dwellings within a locality) selected by simple random sampling within strata. |
| Sample fraction | 0.1 |
| Sample size (person records) | 15015683 |
| Sample weights | Weights computed by census agency should be used for most types of analysis. |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | No |
| Vacant units | No |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | Not available in microdata sample |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | A building enclosed by walls and roofs, made of any material, intended or constructed for human habitation, with independent access from a road, field, path or yard. |
| Households | A space generally delimited by walls and ceilings from any material, with an independent entrance, that was built for people's habitation or at the time of the interview is used for living, that is, for sleeping, preparing food, eating and protection from the environment. |
| Collective dwellings | An establishment that provides lodging for people who share or are subject to rules of coexistence and behavior due to health, education, discipline, rehabilitation, religion, work, social assistance reasons, among others, and that at the time of the census survey have regular residents. Examples: hotels, boarding houses, hospitals, homes, shelters, boarding schools, convents, prisons, barracks, brothels, etc. |
| Census/survey characteristics | |
| Type | Survey |
| Title | National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE) |
| Statistical agency | Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) |
| Population universe | The population residing permanently in private dwellings within Mexico. The employment questionnaire is applied to household members age 12 and over. |
| De jure or de facto | De jure |
| Census/survey day | Continuous survey |
| Field work period | Continuous survey on a quarterly basis (Q1-2005 to Q1-2020) or quarterly/monthly basis (Q3-2020 forward). The logistics and timing for the visits to collect the information varies depending if households are located in the self-represented cities, urban complement, or rural areas. |
| Questionnaire | The survey includes a sociodemographic questionnaire for all household residents and an employment questionnaire for persons age 12 or older. Two types of employment questionnaires: basic (short) and extended (long), which are used in different quarters (see details here). The extended (long) questionnaire has 11 sections: labor force status, unemployment, job characteristics, employer characteristics, work schedule, income and health insurance, secondary employment, job search, work history, participation in government programs, and time use. The short form includes a subset of those sections. |
| Type of fieldwork | Face to face interview (direct enumeration) between Q1-2005 and Q1-2020; combination of face to face interview (direct enumeration) with telephone interview in Q3-2020 and afterwards |
| Microdata sample characteristics | |
| Sample design | Two-stage cluster sample with stratification of the primary sampling units. The primary sampling units are groups of dwellings with specific characteristics depending if these are located in urban, urban complement, or rural areas. Stratification is based on urbanization and sociodemographic indicators. |
| Sample fraction | varies |
| Sample size (person records) | ~120,000 |
| Sample weights | Survey weights computed by statistical agency should be used for most types of analysis |
| Units identified in microdata | |
| Dwellings | Yes |
| Vacant units | Yes |
| Households | Yes |
| Collective dwellings | No |
| Smallest geography | Municipality |
| Unit definitions | |
| Dwellings | Space that is delimited, generally by walls and ceilings of any material, with an independent entrance, and used for inhabitation. That is, being used for preparing food, eating, and protecting oneself from the environment. |
| Households | Group formed by one or more people who habitually reside in the same dwelling and support themselves through common expenses, mainly to feed themselves, who may or may not be related to each other. |
| Collective dwellings | Premises intended to provide accomodation to groups of people who are subject to rules for co-residence and behavior due to reasons of health, education, discipline, rehabilitation, religion, work, social assistance and lodging, among others. |