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INEGI
Name	INEGI
Native name	Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
Formed	1983
Predecessor	Dirección General de Estadística
Headquarters	Aguascalientes, Mexico City
Jurisdiction	Mexico
Chief1 name	(see Organization and workforce)
Website	(omitted)

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INEGI Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía is the federal agency responsible for national censuses, surveys and geostatistical information in Mexico. It conducts decennial population and housing counts, economic censuses, and geographic mapping, interacting with institutions such as Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Banco de México, Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, Instituto Nacional Electoral and international bodies including the United Nations and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Its outputs inform policy debates involving entities like Poder Judicial de la Federación, Cámara de Diputados (México), Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica and private firms such as Grupo Bimbo and Cemex.

History

INEGI traces origins to 19th- and 20th-century statistical initiatives under leaders like Porfirio Díaz and administrations such as Lázaro Cárdenas del Río that created early registries and cartographic efforts linked to agencies like Dirección General de Estadística and Dirección de Geografía. Reorganization in the 1980s amid reforms enacted during the presidency of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado led to statutory creation of the modern institute, succeeding functions performed under institutions related to Secretaría de Gobernación and ties to demographic work influenced by scholars affiliated with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and El Colegio de México. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s INEGI expanded collaborations with international organizations such as World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Inter-American Development Bank and statistical offices like Statistics Canada and United States Census Bureau.

INEGI operates under laws and statutes enacted by the Congress of the Union (Mexico), including legislation that defines its autonomy and mandate alongside norms from the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación and oversight by the Auditoría Superior de la Federación. Its governance model establishes an executive board analogous to bodies in Banco de México and includes appointment processes interacting with the Presidencia de la República (México), parliamentary committees in the Senate of the Republic (Mexico), and standards aligned with those of the International Statistical Institute and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Judicial review of its actions has been adjudicated in cases before the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación and interpreted within frameworks influenced by domestic statutes such as fiscal laws debated in the Cámara de Diputados (México) Comisión de Hacienda.

INEGI carries out population censuses, agricultural and industrial surveys, and national accounts that inform institutions like the Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Secretaría de Economía, Secretaría de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and private sector actors including Grupo Modelo and Televisa. It compiles gross domestic product estimates used by Banco de México and international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme and International Labour Organization. Geospatial products support planning by the Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, urban projects with the Instituto de Vivienda (INFONAVIT), and environmental assessments involving Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad and Comisión Nacional del Agua.

INEGI adopts methodological standards comparable to those of the United Nations Statistics Division, Eurostat, International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization for demographic, economic and health indicators used by entities such as Organización Panamericana de la Salud and research centers at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. It employs sampling designs and estimation techniques referenced in literature from scholars affiliated with Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics and methodological guidance from the Inter-American Statistical Institute. Quality assurance mechanisms include peer review processes comparable to audits by Comisión Federal de Competencia Económica and validation exercises practiced by Statistics Netherlands and Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain).

Major outputs include the Population and Housing Census, Economic Census, National Survey of Occupation and Employment used by Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social and Secretaría de Trabajo y Previsión Social, the National Health and Nutrition Survey utilized by Secretaría de Salud and Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, and cartographic products used by Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional and Secretaría de Marina. Publications and databases are cited in academic work from Universidad Iberoamericana, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas and international reports by the World Bank and OECD. Special thematic studies have supported policy debates involving Poder Judicial de la Federación, urban programs with Comisión Nacional de Vivienda and social programs administered by Secretaría de Bienestar.

INEGI’s organizational structure comprises technical divisions similar to statistical bureaus in Statistics Sweden and Australian Bureau of Statistics, human resources trained at institutions like Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad de Guadalajara, and senior managers with experience interacting with agencies such as Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público and international partners including United Nations Population Fund. Field operations mobilize enumerators and cartographers drawn from regional offices in states including Jalisco, Nuevo León, Chiapas, Oaxaca and Baja California, coordinating logistics sometimes with military agencies like Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional for access to remote areas.