Productive Activities within the SNA,
the Mexican Experience
United Nations Expert Group Muting on the Revision of the United Nations Trial
International Clasification of activities for the Fine Use Statistics (ICATUS)
11-13 june 2012. New York
The objective of this presentation is to do a briefly review
of the evolution of the classifiers of Time Use in Mexico,
with emphasis on the efforts to achieve a standarization
at international level,
particularly with regard to
productive activities within the boundary of work.
The information appearing in this presentation was taken from the working papers:
“Clasificación
Mexicana de Actividades de Uso del Tiempo CMAUT. Documento Metodológico”.
Norma Saavedra Salinas.
“Directrices y referentes conceptuales para armonizar las encuestas sobre uso del tiempo en
América Latina y el Caribe”. Ma. Eugenia Gómez Luna.
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Mexico carried out Time Use Surveys in 1996, 1998 and
2002, integrated to the National Survey of Income and
Expenditure of the Household, which have allowed to
obtain time-use information related to sociodemographic
and occupation characteristics of household members,
income, household expenses, and the characteristics of the
housing they occupy.
In 2009 it was carried out
Survey of Time Use ENUT.
independently the National
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Main characteristics of mexican time use
surveys
SURVEY
OBJECTIVE
INSTRUMENT
CLASSIFIER
National
Survey
on
Working, Contributions and
Time Use. 1996
Collect information on labor,
time use of
household
members.
Questionnaire with lists of
activities. Did not cover 24
hours a day.
List constructed
survey.
National Survey on Time
Use. 1998
Obtain information to know
how to use the time
household members aged 8
and over.
Dairy
The
day
interview.
before
the
List constructed for the
survey.
First effort of
adaptation to the ICATUS.
National Survey on Time
Use. 2002
Generate information about
on time spent in the week
before the interview, to the
activities
of
household
members 12 years and over.
Questionnaire
The week before
interview.
the
List constructed for the
survey. Second effort of
adaptation to the ICATUS.
National Survey on Time
Use. ENUT 2009
Generate
statistics
information on time use
patterns of the mexican
population, in order to assist
the
generation
and
evaluation of public policies.
Questionnaire
The week before
interview.
the
for
the
Mexican Classification of
Time
Use
(CMAUT).
Following the
guiding
principles ICATUS.
What is important to note is that the first classifier as such used in
the Mexican surveys was the CMAUT.
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The Mexican Classification of Activities
of Time Use CMAUT
Born with the objective of having a classification that
applies to ENUT 2009 and subsequent TU surveys.
It taked as a starting point the ICATUS.
Considered the importance of adapting ICATUS to
national circunstances.
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Governing criterion of the adaptation of
CMAUT to ICATUS
Respects the structure and organization of the ICATUS,
who can distinguish between the productive and non
productive activities, and within the first, the ones who
are part of the SNA and the ones that are not within of
this system, but yes in the general border of production.
Use time activities
Productives
N
A
S
Formal sector
Non productives
Educational
Social life
Household Services
Culture
N
O
N
A
S
Domestic Services
Sports
Support for household
members
Hobbies and games
Use of mass media
Services/support to other
household/community
Personal care
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Group levels in the CMAUT
Main division
Division
Group
Class
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Productive Activities within the SNA
Differences ICATUS - CMAUT
CMAUT
Main Division
Division
ICATUS 2005
Groups
Main Division
01 Work in the formal sector
and the household
011 Work in formal sector
and the household
0111 Work in the formal sector
01 Work in formal sector
0112 Primary production work in the household
sector
02 Household. Primary production
activities
0113 No primary production work
in the household sector
03 Household. No primary production
activities
0114 Construction work and greater
repairs in household sector
04 Household. Construction activities
0115 Work in paid services
delivery in the household sector
05 Household. Delivery services
activities
Unlike ICATUS 2005 which considered five main divisions, in the CMAUT for
the work within the boundary of the NAS, it was determined one main
division and a division for labor in structured sector and the household
sector, at group level are presented the activities that correspond to
the formal sector and the ones that corresponds to the households,
depending on the characteristics of goods and services produced.
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Productive Activities within the SNA
Differences ICATUS - CMAUT
JOB SEARCH
ICATUS
012 Related activities in
the structural sector
CMAUT
012 Job search and business
creation.
022 Related activities in activities
of primary production
032 Related activities in activities
of non primary production
042 Related activities in
activities of construction
052 Related activities in activities
of services
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Aspects that support the differences
CMAUT - ICATUS
Mexico has a National Survey of Occupation and Employment
(ENOE) which is part of an Integrated System of Household
Surveys whose philosophy is to ensure complementarity of the
measurements made for each survey and avoid repeating the
measurement of the same subject.
The ENOE makes particular emphasis on the difference between
work that is for the formal sector, and the one which takes place in
the households.
In countries like Mexico where informal economic units have an
important weight, it doesn't be excluded that the job search also
takes place in the household sector.
Is very difficult for those seeking work, look for work in a business
with a specific activity, or that the person may classify the activity
business where he is looking for work.
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Classifier of time use for America Latina and
the Caribe (CAUTAL)
In parallel way with the preparation of ENUT 2009 conceptual
framework, based on CMAUT, in the frame of the Conference of the
American States (CEA), Mexico participates in the work to achieve a
standarized classifier of time use for América Latina and the
Caribe, the CAUTAL.
The guiding principle of the CAUTAL, is to consider the general
boundary of production of the National Account System.
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General Objectives of the CAUTAL
Provide information with a gender approach
on paid and unpaid work and personal activities of the population
under study
under unpaid domestic work and care done by women and men for
their own home
for the valuation of unpaid household work and satellite account
and for the elaboration of indicators , highlighting gender equality
indicators.
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Criteria for gruoping of activities in
CAUTAL
Main division
Division
Gruop
Subgruop
Class
Boundaries
of the
production
Border of
the work
Main
categories
Set of
activities
that have a
purpose
Activities
contributing
to a
purpose
Specific
activities
Letters
One digit
Two digits
Three digits
Four digits
3
9
28
82
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Productive Activities within the SNA
Comparison ICATUS-CAUTAL
ICATUS 2012
Main Division
Division
CAUTAL
Division
Group
SubGroup
1 Paid work
1 Paid Work
11 work for corporations/quasi corporations, non-profit
11 Paid work in companies and businesses
institutions and government (“formal sector” work)
12 Paid work in government and institutions
12 Work for household in primary production activities
13 Self-employment business market
13 Work for household in non-primary production
14 Work for household consumption
activities
141 In primary activities
14 Work for household in construction activities
142 Non primary activities
15 Work for household providing services for income
143 Activities of construction
16 Looking for work/setting up business
144 Purchase of goods related with activities
18 Travel related to paid work
141,142 and sale of products obtained from
1x Other activities related to paid work not elsewhere
the same
classified (n.e.c.)
145 Paid domestic service
140 Work in other producitive activities of
household consumption
2 Activities related to paid work
21 Looking for work
22 Work transfer
The gap between these classifiers at this point is greatly reduced
with the proposed adjustments in the ICATUS 2012.
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Thank You!