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Mexico Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2008

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General Info
Original or alternative title 
Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH)
Provider 
National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) (Mexico)
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Geography 
Mexico (MEX)
Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
08/2008 - 11/2008
Series or system 
Mexico Household Income and Expenditure Survey (ENIGH)
Data type
Survey:
  • Cross-sectional
  • Household
  • Individual
  • Interview
  • Nationally representative
  • Subnationally representative
  • Urban-rural representative
Summary 

The purpose of this survey was to investigate the income, spending, sociodemographic, and employment situations of households in Mexico. The data were collected through in-home in-person interviews. The survey included households in urban and rural areas throughout Mexico. The sample size for this round was 35,146 households.

The questionnaire asked about living conditions and household assets, education, employment activities of persons 12 years and older, a 7-day household expenditure diary, detailed questions on spending, and income.

This survey ran two modules at the same time, to the same population sample, using the same questionnaires. The modules were called Traditional and New Construction. The difference between the two was the construction of the variables and how they are presented in the results. The New Construction results segmented spending and income into tabulations that included monetary and nonmonetary incomes and expenditures.

Keywords 
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