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More than in most countries, the passage of time has been a factor in the Mexican experience. Continuities from the past in Mexico leave an indelible imprint on the present. Like the living splendors of Greece and Rome, the artifacts of classical antiquity that engulf Mexico assault one’s historical consciousness and conjure up powerful images of times gone by. Like Egypt, Mexico has its ancient pyramids; like Spain, its ancient aqueducts; like Persia, its ancient hieroglyphics; like China, its collections of ancient art. Public murals, frescoes, and statuary, all attentive to history and all with unmistakable messages, as well as cultural programming on radio, television, and film, reinforce these powerful legacies of Mexico’ ancestry. The collective memory strongly reflects the heritage bequeathed by the centuries. Moreover, it permits a wonderfully personal engagement with the nation’s past.
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Vaughn, B. (2004), Black Mexico. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/ethnic/bv/brief.htm
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The sex ratio is the principal measure of sex composition used in technical studies. The sex ratio is usually defined as the number of males per 100 females, or [(pm/pf) × 100], where pm represents the number of males and pf the number of females.
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The age dependency ratio represents the ratio of the combined child population and aged population to the population of intermediate age. The formula for computing this ratio is: [(p0–14 + p65+)/p15–64) × 100]. Applying the formula to the survey data, the computed value is: [(2,881 + 467)/4,850] × 100 = 69.03.
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Child-woman ratio is also known as ‘general fertility ratio’ or ‘ratio of children to women.’ This measure is commonly used to compute the ratio of children under 5 years old to women of childbearing age—that is, by dividing the number of children under 5 years old in the population by the number of women 15–49 years old.
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A Country Study: Mexico, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, November 18, 2005. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/fnd/cs/mxdoc.html
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Minimum wages for the year 2005 (i.e. at the time of survey) were 46.80 pesos for Guerrero state and 44.05 for Oaxaca state. For further discussion on this subject, visit the website of the National Commission of Minimum Wages, http://www.mexicanlaws.com/minwages2005.html
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Vaughn, B. (2004), Black Mexico. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/ethnic/bv/brief.htm
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The morbidity rate is usually defined as the percent of persons falling sick in a given population, or [(psr/pr) × 100], where psr represents the number of persons falling sick in a relationship category ‘r’ and pr the number of persons in the same relationship category.
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The disability ratio is defined as the number of persons with disability per 1,000 persons without disability, or [(pwd/pwod) × 1,000], where pod represents the number of persons with disability and pwod the number of persons without disability. Therefore, for Census 2000, this ratio is: [(116,938/6,330,410) × 1,000] = 18.47; and for survey data: [(203/8,025) × 1,000] = 25.30.
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Murty, K.S., Yasin, J. (2012). Characteristics of Afro-Descendants in Mexico: A Survey of the Costa Chica Area of the Oaxaca and Guerrero States. In: Hoque, N., Swanson, D. (eds) Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century. Applied Demography Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2297-2_8
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