III. Personal characteristics

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

For all persons
[Questions 1-10 are asked of all persons.]

8. Entitlement to health services
Does [the respondent] have the right to receive medical services from the following:

6.5 Section III. Characteristics of the people

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

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.

For all persons
[Questions 1-11 are for all persons.]

8. Entitlement to health services
This question records people from the dwelling who have a right to medical service.

A person has a right to medical service when:

• The company, factory, or company for which the person works pays the medical service to a private or public health institution.
• He/she personally pays a voluntary or optional insurance in the IMSS.
• He/she is pensioned or retired with some social security institution like: IMSS, ISSSTE; or Pemex, the Army, or the Marines.
• He/she is enrolled and pays a quota in some government program such as Popular Insurance, or Medical Insurance for a New Generation.

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• He/she has private medical services or insurance for major medical expenses from private health institutions, as is the case of the bank employees or some of the government workers.
• He/she acquired a private medical insurance on his/her own account.
• He/she is a beneficiary of a worker or incumbent of the right to medical service.

Take into account the following and circle:

• Code 2, if the response is ISSSTE and deals with federal government workers.
• Code 3, if the declaration is of the state social security institutions such as: ISSSET, ISSSETMyM, ISSSTEZAC, ISSSPEA, or ISSSTESON, the state ISSSTE is circled.
• Code 7, when the informer knows that the person has a right to medical service, but can't identify that institution.

Example:
If the informer declares that the person has a right to medical service in a clinic, ask if it is provided from the factory or business where he/she works, if it is paid by him/her or he/she is enrolled in the Popular Insurance, and try to locate the response in the IMSS, ISSSTE, Pemex, the Army, the Marines, or another.

Consider that the person has rights to medical service if at the moment of the interview, he/she is going through the process to receive medical attention in institutions like the IMSS, ISSSTE, Pemex, the Army, the Marines, or another; circle the option code that corresponds.

If the person is a student of some education institution that provides the right to medical service, circle the option code that corresponds.

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Circle code 8 for the people who don't have rights to medical services when:

• They receive medical service in the IMSS Opportunities (before IMSS Solidarity or IMSS Coplamar).
• They solicit medical attention in the health centers or hospitals of the SSA.
• They receive medical attention in the hospitals, private clinics, and pay for the service at that moment; private medical practices, Farmacias Similares, among others.
• They claim to receive medical service in institutions as: SSA, DIF, Red Cross, Green Cross, Amber Cross, medical dispensaries, or other benefit institutions.
• They only have the right to medical service in the United States of America or another country.

For this question, you can circle up to two response options; if the informer declares more, circle the first two that the informer says.