Population and Housing Census 2020 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset
Mexico, 2020
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MEX_2020_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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- MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat
- MEX2020_PHC-P-H.dat
Form of acquisition of the dwelling (MX2020A_ACQUISIT)
Data file: MEX2020_PHC-H-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
287
End:
287
Width:
1
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<span class="h3">I. Characteristics of the housing unit</span></p>
<p>25. Purchase: Did the owner or proprietor of this housing unit:</p>
<div class="i1">Read all options and circle one code only for each option<br /><br />[] 1 Purchase it already built?<br />[] 2 Have it built?<br />[] 3 Build it themselves or their relatives?<br />[] 4 Was it inherited? (go to II. list of people and general information)<br />[] 5 Was it received as government assistance? (go to II. list of people and general information)<br />[] 6 Was it obtained in a different way? (go to II. list of people and general information)</div>
<p>25. Purchase: Did the owner or proprietor of this housing unit:</p>
<div class="i1">Read all options and circle one code only for each option<br /><br />[] 1 Purchase it already built?<br />[] 2 Have it built?<br />[] 3 Build it themselves or their relatives?<br />[] 4 Was it inherited? (go to II. list of people and general information)<br />[] 5 Was it received as government assistance? (go to II. list of people and general information)<br />[] 6 Was it obtained in a different way? (go to II. list of people and general information)</div>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Purchased it already built |
| 2 | Ordered the construction of it |
| 3 | Built it himself/herself or with relatives |
| 4 | Inherited it |
| 5 | Received it as public support |
| 6 | Obtained it in another way |
| 8 | Unknown |
| 9 | NIU (not in universe) |
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="h1">15. Extended questionnaire</span>
<br />This section of the questionnaire contains the questions you must apply in the households you have registered as: Single house on the land, house sharing land with other(s); duplex house; apartment in a building; housing unit in neighborhood or tenement and housing unit in the rooftop room of a building. That is, with classes 1 to 6 of private housing unit class.</p>
<p><span class="ital">24. Deed or title</span>
<br />This question allows us to know if the person who owns the housing unit has deeds or ownership titles in their name, or if they are in the name of another person who does not live in the housing unit.</p>
<p>In general terms, the ownership titles of a property are a public document signed by a notary where one or more people are accredited as legal owners of the property.</p>
<p>Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.</p>
<p>Mark the first option when the deeds are in the name of the owner who resides in the housing unit; also, if they only have the deeds to the land and not to the housing unit because they built it or had it built.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 265]</span></p>
<p>If there are two people who are the owners and the deeds of the housing unit are only in the name of one of them, mark option 1, which means that the deeds are in the name of the owner or proprietor.</p>
<p>Please note that it is not necessary to show or request any documents.</p>
<p>Mark the second option when they answer that the deeds or ownership titles are in the name of a person who does not reside in the housing unit or when commenting: "They are in my father's name, but he is dead", "They are in my ex-husband's name" or "They are in my daughter's name, but she doesn't live here anymore".</p>
<p>Record no deeds if the respondent indicates so or mentions that they are in process, that they only have a receipt or sales contract.</p>
<p>The option Don't know is not read and is only recorded in cases where the respondent does not know the answer.</p>
<p>The deed or title question is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 266]</span></p>
<p><span class="ital">25. Acquisition</span>
<br />The purpose of the question is to find out how the owner or proprietor obtained the housing unit.</p>
<p>Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.</p>
<p>Consider the following criteria:</p>
<div class="i1">It was bought already built, if the owner or proprietor obtained t in exchange for a cash or credit payment, so it may be fully paid or have a debt or mortgage. It is a finished housing unit that the owner purchased from a private individual or company.<br /><br />[Figure omitted: image with text]<br /><br />They consider that the housing unit they bought is the one that is ready to be inhabited, even if they say that after they bought it they built another room or remodeled it.<br /><br />Had it built, if they hired and paid a worker, mason, architect, engineer, or construction company for its construction.<br /><br />They built it themselves or relatives built it when it was built by the owner or other occupants of the housing unit, relatives or friends, for which no person was hired or paid.</div><span class="pg">[p. 267]</span><div class="i1">[Images omitted]<br /><br />They inherited it when they acquired it by a disposition established in a will or won it through a legal trial. Includes housing units inherited during life.<br /><br />[Image omitted]<br /><br />It was received as government assistance, when it was granted by a public institution because the housing unit in which they previously resided suffered some natural or social mishap, such as floods, earthquakes; or relocation as a result of the construction of a highway; and so on.<br /><br />It was obtained in another way if it is stated that it was given as a gift, obtained in a raffle, occupied without the owner's permission, as well as any other situation different from the above.<br /><br />If the answer is it was inherited, it was received as government assistance, or obtained in another way, go to section II. List of people and general data.<br /><br />Instead, if you recorded codes 1 through 3, continue with question 26. Financing.</div><span class="pg">[p. 268]</span></p>
<p>The acquisition question is displayed in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="ital">26. Financing</span>
<br />The purpose of this question is to find out how the person who owns the housing unit obtained the money or resources to build or pay for it.</p>
<p>Read the question along with all its options.</p>
<p>Select the corresponding code(s) indicated by the respondent.</p>
<p>If the person obtained financing through several sources or combined credits, record up to three options from the list.</p>
<p>Please, take into account the following considerations:</p>
<div class="i1">- INFONAVIT (Institute of the National Workers' Housing Fund), is the institute that administers the housing fund for workers who have Social Security; including self-employed workers with social security.<br />- FOVISSSTE (Institute of Social Security and Social Services for State Employees), is the institute that administers the housing fund for workers of the federal government and autonomous agencies.<br /><br />[Figure omitted: image with text]</div><span class="pg">[p. 269]</span><div class="i1">- PEMEX (<span class="ital">Petróleos Mexicanos</span>), is an organization that provides its workers with loans for the purchase or construction of housing.<br />- FONHAPO (National Fund for Popular Rooms), is a popular housing fund that grants small loans to low-income families to build a housing unit.<br />- A bank, refers to any banking institution.<br />- Other institution <br />refers to the credits granted by the housing institutes of the states; corporations such as Sofoles, Sofomes, and Sofipo (financial institutions that provide credit); the Social Security Institute for the Mexican Armed Forces; savings banks or other agencies.<br />- Loaned by a relative, friend, or lender, if they requested a loan from relatives, friends, or a lender to build the housing unit.<br />- Used their own resources, if the owner built or bought their housing unit with their own money and did not require any type of credit or financing.<br /><br />[Figure omitted]</div><p>If the answer is that they only used their own resources, go to section II. List of people and general data; instead, if you recorded codes 1 through 7 or a combination of codes 1 through 7 and 8, continue with question 27. Debt.</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 270]</span></p>
<p>The financing question is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]
<br />This section of the questionnaire contains the questions you must apply in the households you have registered as: Single house on the land, house sharing land with other(s); duplex house; apartment in a building; housing unit in neighborhood or tenement and housing unit in the rooftop room of a building. That is, with classes 1 to 6 of private housing unit class.</p>
<p><span class="ital">24. Deed or title</span>
<br />This question allows us to know if the person who owns the housing unit has deeds or ownership titles in their name, or if they are in the name of another person who does not live in the housing unit.</p>
<p>In general terms, the ownership titles of a property are a public document signed by a notary where one or more people are accredited as legal owners of the property.</p>
<p>Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.</p>
<p>Mark the first option when the deeds are in the name of the owner who resides in the housing unit; also, if they only have the deeds to the land and not to the housing unit because they built it or had it built.</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 265]</span></p>
<p>If there are two people who are the owners and the deeds of the housing unit are only in the name of one of them, mark option 1, which means that the deeds are in the name of the owner or proprietor.</p>
<p>Please note that it is not necessary to show or request any documents.</p>
<p>Mark the second option when they answer that the deeds or ownership titles are in the name of a person who does not reside in the housing unit or when commenting: "They are in my father's name, but he is dead", "They are in my ex-husband's name" or "They are in my daughter's name, but she doesn't live here anymore".</p>
<p>Record no deeds if the respondent indicates so or mentions that they are in process, that they only have a receipt or sales contract.</p>
<p>The option Don't know is not read and is only recorded in cases where the respondent does not know the answer.</p>
<p>The deed or title question is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 266]</span></p>
<p><span class="ital">25. Acquisition</span>
<br />The purpose of the question is to find out how the owner or proprietor obtained the housing unit.</p>
<p>Read the question and each option until an affirmative answer is obtained and record the corresponding code.</p>
<p>Consider the following criteria:</p>
<div class="i1">It was bought already built, if the owner or proprietor obtained t in exchange for a cash or credit payment, so it may be fully paid or have a debt or mortgage. It is a finished housing unit that the owner purchased from a private individual or company.<br /><br />[Figure omitted: image with text]<br /><br />They consider that the housing unit they bought is the one that is ready to be inhabited, even if they say that after they bought it they built another room or remodeled it.<br /><br />Had it built, if they hired and paid a worker, mason, architect, engineer, or construction company for its construction.<br /><br />They built it themselves or relatives built it when it was built by the owner or other occupants of the housing unit, relatives or friends, for which no person was hired or paid.</div><span class="pg">[p. 267]</span><div class="i1">[Images omitted]<br /><br />They inherited it when they acquired it by a disposition established in a will or won it through a legal trial. Includes housing units inherited during life.<br /><br />[Image omitted]<br /><br />It was received as government assistance, when it was granted by a public institution because the housing unit in which they previously resided suffered some natural or social mishap, such as floods, earthquakes; or relocation as a result of the construction of a highway; and so on.<br /><br />It was obtained in another way if it is stated that it was given as a gift, obtained in a raffle, occupied without the owner's permission, as well as any other situation different from the above.<br /><br />If the answer is it was inherited, it was received as government assistance, or obtained in another way, go to section II. List of people and general data.<br /><br />Instead, if you recorded codes 1 through 3, continue with question 26. Financing.</div><span class="pg">[p. 268]</span></p>
<p>The acquisition question is displayed in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]</p>
<p><span class="ital">26. Financing</span>
<br />The purpose of this question is to find out how the person who owns the housing unit obtained the money or resources to build or pay for it.</p>
<p>Read the question along with all its options.</p>
<p>Select the corresponding code(s) indicated by the respondent.</p>
<p>If the person obtained financing through several sources or combined credits, record up to three options from the list.</p>
<p>Please, take into account the following considerations:</p>
<div class="i1">- INFONAVIT (Institute of the National Workers' Housing Fund), is the institute that administers the housing fund for workers who have Social Security; including self-employed workers with social security.<br />- FOVISSSTE (Institute of Social Security and Social Services for State Employees), is the institute that administers the housing fund for workers of the federal government and autonomous agencies.<br /><br />[Figure omitted: image with text]</div><span class="pg">[p. 269]</span><div class="i1">- PEMEX (<span class="ital">Petróleos Mexicanos</span>), is an organization that provides its workers with loans for the purchase or construction of housing.<br />- FONHAPO (National Fund for Popular Rooms), is a popular housing fund that grants small loans to low-income families to build a housing unit.<br />- A bank, refers to any banking institution.<br />- Other institution <br />refers to the credits granted by the housing institutes of the states; corporations such as Sofoles, Sofomes, and Sofipo (financial institutions that provide credit); the Social Security Institute for the Mexican Armed Forces; savings banks or other agencies.<br />- Loaned by a relative, friend, or lender, if they requested a loan from relatives, friends, or a lender to build the housing unit.<br />- Used their own resources, if the owner built or bought their housing unit with their own money and did not require any type of credit or financing.<br /><br />[Figure omitted]</div><p>If the answer is that they only used their own resources, go to section II. List of people and general data; instead, if you recorded codes 1 through 7 or a combination of codes 1 through 7 and 8, continue with question 27. Debt.</p>
<p><span class="pg">[p. 270]</span></p>
<p>The financing question is presented in the census manager as follows:</p>
<p>[Figure omitted: image with text]
Description
Definition
This variable indicates the form of acquisition of the dwelling.
Universe
Mexico 2020: Private dwellings occupied by owner or proprietor [discrepancies: none]
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD | IPUMS |