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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
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Monthly income from work (MX2000A_INCWK)

Data file: MEX2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous
Decimal: 0
Start: 345
End: 351
Width: 7
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MX00A447 MX00A462">28. Income from work<br /><br />In total how much money did this person earn or receive for his or her work?<br />Write the amount received in pesos and the period. If he or she did not receive income write 0 in the space for period.<br /><br />Period:<br /><div class="i1">1 Weekly<br />2 Bi-weekly<br />3 Monthly<br />4 Yearly</div><br /><br />$ _ _ _ , _ _ _ Write the amount<br /><br />[ _ ] Write the period<br /></svar>
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v=" MX00A447 MX00A462"><span class="em">28. Income from Work</span><br /><br />[Depiction of this completed question on the enumeration form]<br /><br />With this question we find out the amount of money that the person earns weekly, twice-monthly, monthly, or yearly from their job.<br /><br />If they report that the person worked more than one job, add up what they earn in each one of them and record the total.<br /><br />When the person hesitates to give an answer because what they earn is variable or they don't remember the exact amount, ask them to give you a figure even if it's approximate or an average.<br /><br />If the informant responds that the person earns the minimum wage, ask how much that is, and if they don't know, consider the minimum monthly salary for your city to be $ [blank], for which you should verify with the informant if they receive this amount and how often they receive it.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates monthly income.
Universe
Mexico 2000: Persons age 12+ who worked the week before the census or did not work but had a job [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Income Variables -- PERSON IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
MX00A447 is a 7-digit numeric variable.


Codes9999998 = Unknown.
9999999 = NIU.
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