and Data Processing

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.

On September 25, 2001, a member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) proposed constitutional autonomy to the INEGI. On December 15 of 2003, the senate approved the measure unanimously that amends the articles 26 and 108 of the constitution. ^[1] The measure, ratified on November 2005 by the senate, also creates the Sistema Nacional de Información Estadística y Geográfica, a system that collects information that will be considered "official" and that the federation, states, the Federal District and municipios will use. ^[2]

Contents 1 Surveys 2 See also 3 Footnotes 4 External links 4.1 Topics 4.2 Surveys

Surveys

This institution organizes and executes the following surveys:

• Censo General de Población y Vivienda, a national census 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.
• Censo Económico, a census on the economy of Mexico 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.
• Gross domestic product of the country every month.
• Consumer confidence

See also

• CiberHábitat – INEGI's "The city of computers" (by INEGI)

Footnotes

External links

• Official site ((Spanish))
• Mexico at a glance
• Cuéntame: INEGI for kids ((Spanish))

Topics

• Statistical information ((Spanish))
• Geographical information ((Spanish))
• Economy of Mexico database ((Spanish))
• Statistics by topic ((Spanish))
• Digital map of Mexico ((Spanish))

Surveys

• 2005 Conteo de Población y Vivienda ((Spanish))
• 2004 Censo Económico ((Spanish))
• 2000 Censo General de Población y Vivienda ((Spanish))

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