The INEGI is the public organization with management and technical autonomy, own legal personality and patrimony, we are in charge of norm and coordinating the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information Also norm and coordinates the statistical and geographic activities that carry out the units of the State with the intention of obtaining data of national interest.

Censuses of population in history

Our country counts on one long censal tradition since from 1895 it realizes of regular way east type of censales events. Censales testimonies exist from the pre-Columbian time and the colony. From 1900 every 10 years are realized the Censuses of Population, except 1920, as a result of the revolution. In 1950 it was gotten up thematic of house inhabited in the population censuses, and from 1980 the homes to the interior of the houses are identified and characterized. As of 1990 the operative censal is realized in more of a day. In 1995 it was realized the first Count of Population and House and the second in the 2005.

Census of Population and House 2010 The National Institute of Statistic and Geographic (INEGI), will carry out of the 31 of May until to the 25 of June of this year the Census of Population and House´s 2010. The Censes event is realized every 10 years and constitutes one of the pillars of the National System of Statistical and Geographic Information.

General mission.

To update the information about the number of habitants, their socio-economic characteristics and their territorial distribution, and to get information about the basic characteristics of the houses. Goals to realize an exhaustive enumeration of the population and the houses of all the country. To go deep by means of a sample in the knowledge of high-priority subjects like incapacity, migration, education, health, among others. To obtain data of optimal quality To give results in the first trimester of 2011 Rise of the information The Census of Population and House will be a right census, that is to say that we will count to the population in its place of habitual residence from a direct interview. The rise of the information will become by means of two questionnaires:

• Basic questionnaire. It will be applied to all the population of the country. It consists of 29 questions.
• Extended questionnaire. It will be applied to a sample, distributed in all the national territory. It consists of 79 questions.

Thematic censal

The information that we will catch from the basic questionnaire will be: Population • Gender • Age • Geographic distribution • Level of schooling • Incapacity • Indigenous language House • Predominant material in floors • Number of quarters • Access to services of electricity, water, water closet and drainage • Availability of goods electric home appliances In the extended questionnaire, besides the information of the basic one data will attract on: Population • Health • Incapacity • Indigenous language • Education • Internal and international migration • Economic characteristics • Fecundity House • Characteristics of construction • Structural characteristics • Characteristics of equipment Possession of the house, among others

Representatives of the INEGI will visit all the houses of the country to apply to the censal questionnaire to the head or female leader of the home. If so also, he will be able to respond a person who has 15 or more years of age than she lives in the house and she knows the information his occupants.

The INEGI representatives will carry of visible way their credential of the Institute with photography Also you will be able to identify, them by its clothes that will be composed by vest, cap and knapsack, all with the logo of the INEGI. If you have doubt on the census or the identity of the representative of the INEGI, you can communicate to 01 800 111 46 34 or consults the page in Internet: www.inegi.org.mx.

Utility of the information!

The information derived from the Census of Population and House 2010 will be very useful for the planning and decision making of the different sectors from the society: For the offices of government of the three levels, it will mean a support in the decision making, definition of plans and policies of social development. For the organization of the private sector, it will represent a basic consumption in the elaboration of studies on the demand of products and services. For academic and the investigating ones it will help in the knowledge of the demographic reality partner of the population and his houses The students and teachers, will support the academic formation with which the statistical culture is fomented, The mass media will have contexts and antecedents like support in the generation of notes, articles and news articles And the population generally, will know the national reality with respect to as and how many we are the Mexicans.

Centers of Consultation and Commercialization The Institute counts on 46 Centers of located Consultation and Commercialization in the national territory. In them it is possible to consult of gratuitous way the heap of Censuses of Population that the INEGI has available as well as a great fan of geographic and economic information of the country. In the organization, you will be able to consult or to acquire the statistical and geographic data of your interest in Center of Consultation and Commercialization INEGI La Paz on Altamirano No. 2790, between 5 de Febrero y Navarro