The Conteo de Población y Vivienda (''Count of Population and Housing'') is a national

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

compiled by the government of

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

, taken intermedially between the more comprehensive national general censuses (''

Censo General de Población y Vivienda The Censo de Población y Vivienda (''Population and Housing Census'') is the main national population census for Mexico. It is compiled by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a decentralized agency of the Mexican Federal go ...

''). Like the general census, the ''Conteo'' is conducted on a decennial basis—every ten years in a year ending in 5, while the ''censo general'' is conducted in years ending in 0. The first ''conteo'' was conducted in 1995, and the second in 2005, intermediate between the last ''censo general'' in 2000 and the next scheduled census in 2010. The responsibility for designing and carrying out the ''conteo'' and the general census lies with the national statistics body, INEGI (

Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its name in es, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Stat ...

External links

Memoria del Conteo de Población y Vivienda 1995
online publication of the I Conteo de Población y Vivienda 1995, INEGI
II Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005
results of the 2005 ''conteo'' National Institute of Statistics and Geography Censuses in Mexico {{mexico-hist-stub