National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing
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The National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)) is a unit of the government of Mexico dedicated to the collection and organization of statistical, geographical and economic information on the country.
The INEGI was founded by presidential decree on January 25, 1983 with the merger between the bureaus of statistics (founded in 1882) and geography (founded in 1968). It is headquartered in the city Aguascalientes in central Mexico.
The institute is a dependency of the executive power under the direct control of the Minitry of Finance (Secretaria de Hacienda). Currently there is an open legislative process that attemps to give budget and legal autonomy to this institution.
Products
Demography
- Censo General de Población y Vivienda, or National Population and Housing Census. It is an exahustive survey that collects information on the population via direct interviewing on every household in the nation every ten years. The last censo took place in 2000.
- Conteo de Población y Vivienda, a censo at a lower scale every ten years. The last conteo took place in 2005.
Macroeconomic Indexes
- Banco de Informacion Economica, or Economic Information Dataset, it contain information onthe principal macroeconomi aggregates of the country including national economy, fiscal policy, external trade, employment and unemployment.
- Censo Económico, or Economic Census is an exhaustive survey that that collects information on the fishing, mining, electricity generation, water resources, manufacturing, construction, transportation, postal, and warehousing sectors of the economy every five years. The last censo económico took place in 2004.
- Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso Gasto, or National Income Expenditure Survey, similar to the US CEX includes information about income and expenditure at household level. The survey is carried out each two years since 1984.
- Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, on National Employment Survey, present information about labour conditions at individual level. It is carried out in a quarterly based.
See also
- CiberHábitat – INEGI's "The city of computers" (by INEGI)
External links
Topics
- [Statistical information] ()
- [Geographical information] ()
- [Economy of Mexico database] ()
- [Statistics by topic] ()
- [Digital map of Mexico] ()
Surveys
- [2005] Conteo de Población y Vivienda ()
- [2004] Censo Económico ()
- [2000] Censo General de Población y Vivienda ()
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