The number of people considered socially vulnerable due to a lack of access to basic housing services in Mexico accounted for approximately 17.8 percent of the country's population in 2022. This represents an improvement when compared to the 19.6 percent of the Mexican population that did not have access to basic housing utilities in 2018.

In 2022, Guerrero was the Mexican state with the highest share of population considered vulnerable due to a lack of adequate housing. Over 26 percent of the inhabitants in Guerrero were considered to live in poor housing conditions or without enough space, while Nuevo Leon had the lowest rate, at 3.2 percent. Guerrero was the second state in Mexico with the highest average extreme poverty rate only behind Chiapas.

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Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Characteristic of excluded and included La Frontera participants, 2020–2021.

Analysis unit

Persons and households

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: no - Vacant Units: no - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: no

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Occupied dwelling with independent entryway used for shelter - Households: Group of persons, related or not, who live together under the same roof and share food expenses - Group quarters: Building used to shelter people for reasons of assistance, health, education, religion, confinement or service

Universe

Mexican citizens, including Mexican diplomats and their families resident in other countries; foreign residents, not including foreigners in diplomatic service or their families. The census sought to enumerate vagrants, the homeless, and transient workers. The current version of the microdata sample excludes persons living abroad.

Kind of data

Population and Housing Census [hh/popcen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI)

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 8118242.

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of private dwellings. Geographically sorted by population size (municipality and locality) to increase precision. Samples executed independently for each federal entity.

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Separate enumeration form for each dwelling

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