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IPS271 Edgar Vielma Orozco et al.

Use of new technologies for the 2020 Population
and Housing Census Round
Vielma, Navarro, Salcedo
University of the Philippines

Abstract
For the first time in Mexico, the 2020 Population and Housing Census data
collection will be carried out through a CAPI (Computer-Assisted Personal
Interviewing) scheme as the main enumeration method, but it will also the
CATI (Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing) and CAWI (Computer-
Assisted Web Interviewing) methods. These innovations, given the census
structure size and the rapid changes in technologies, are a significant
challenge for INEGI. Progress in census planning and field tests results will be
presented, including the main challenges to be faced, the innovations
considered for their implementation, as well as the successful experiences on
the use of technologies for geo-referencing the information both in the data
collection stage and for results dissemination.

Keywords
Population; Census; Innovations; Technologies

1. Introduction
The purpose of this document is to present the main characteristics of the
2020 Population and Housing Census; the IT strategy to be implemented,
emphasizing innovations, in order to increase efficiency and control in each of
its stages; as well as the main characteristics and results obtained during the
field tests carried out to determine if the defined procedures are sufficiently
solid to carry out this census project.
One of the most important technological innovations of this project is the
census data collection through the use of mobile computing devices (MD), an
area in which INEGI already has the experience of previous statistical events
(surveys, economic census). Also the implementation of operating procedures
supported by a set of computer tools at the service of the staff, achieving the
automation of several processes.

2. Main characteristics of the Population and Housing Census 2020
The 2020 Census in Mexico, like its predecessors, will be a “de jure” census,
which means that the population is enumerated in its place of usual residence.
The units of observation of the census are the usual residents of the country,
private dwellings and collective living quarters. The proxy respondent is the

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