2.1 Number of people
This question is asked to know the total number of people who reside habitually in a dwelling.
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Write down the number of people the informant indicates. If there are doubts about who should be considered habitual residents, keep in mind the following criteria.
Habitual residents are:
- Newborns who have not come home yet because they are still in the hospital.
- Those who are temporarily absent because of vacation, hospitalization, traveling for work or business, scholarly practices or any other cause.
- Those who cross the border daily to work in another country, if they return to Mexico on weekends.
- Domestic workers and their families who sleep in the dwelling.
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- Foreigners who normally live in the dwelling.
- People who at the moment of the interview are present in the dwelling and do not have another place to live.
- People who because of a work or study dynamic do not eat in the dwelling, but sleep there.
- Guests who sleep in the dwelling and pay for the service of lodging.
- Those who go from one locality to another to work or study, daily or many days a week, or those who return to the dwelling on weekends.
- People who because of their job, do not sleep in the dwelling or require frequent trips to other cities, but recognize the dwelling as their place of habitual residence, such as the case of truck or railroad drivers, traveling salespeople, nurses who work at night, etc.
Habitual residents of the dwelling are not:
- People who are visiting and have another place of habitual residence.
- People who left to live in another place because of studies, work or another cause.
If an informant does not know how to determine if a person is a habitual resident or not, apply the following criteria in the order indicated, that is, if with the first of these the informant still does not know how to define the condition of residence of any person, ask the second. It is very important that you respect the established order.
1. Recognizing the address. Say to an informant: "If I asked this person directly where he or she lived, what would the answer be?" If the answer is "here" (dwelling where the interview is carried out), it is a habitual resident. If another dwelling is the answer, do not include the person.
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If after applying this criterion, the informant still does not know, apply the second.
2. Time of absence. Ask for the time that the person has been absent from the dwelling. If it is less than six months, consider as resident of the dwelling. If it has been a six months absence or more, do not include the person.
Example:
Informant: He goes for a time to work, but returns.
Interviewer: If I ask him, where do you live, what would he say?
Informant: Here.
Then he is considered a habitual resident and should be included in the number of people.
If the answer is there.
He is not considered a habitual resident and should not be included in the number of occupants.
It the answer is I wouldn't know what to tell you, apply the second criteria.
Informant: I wouldn't know what to tell you.
Interviewer: How long has it been since Eugenio left the last time?
Informant: A little more than seven months ago.
Do not consider him a habitual resident and do not include him in the total number of people in the dwelling.
If the answer is five months ago, he is considered a habitual resident and is included in the total number of people in the dwelling.