Incomes of Households in the Geography of Mexico

This paper applies econometric estimation methods to improve the level of precision & detail in the measurement of welfare in Mexico, & specifically to estimate household incomes. As is the case in other countries, Mexico has had, on the one hand, household surveys that provide high precision income measures but with very limited possibilities of geographic desegregation, & on the other, income indicators from Censuses that allow for detailed geographic desegregation but with very low precision levels. We use our estimation method to present the first series of household incomes at the state & municipality levels, as well as the first series of Human Development Indexes at the municipality level. Tables, Maps, Appendixes, References.