| Résumé: | This paper refers to problems of definition and measurement of the Economically Active Population in the early nineties in different Mexican sources of information, considering in particular the 1990 Population Census and the 1991 National Survey on Employment. The study analyzes in detail the questions, reference periods, and coding systems of these two and other previous surveys and censuses. Its findings allow us to state that the 1990 Population Census is an adequate source of information for analyzing national full-time salaried work force. Conversely, workers that cannot or will not become part of the salaried work force, and often recur to part-time income-generating strategies, must be assessed through employment surveys.
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