Latin American Economic Review

Table 14 Material welfare indicators by group and employment status

From: Economic behavior of indigenous peoples: the Mexican case

	Basic commodities			Non-basic commodities			Quality of housing
	Mean [0–6]			Mean [0–5]			Mean [0–3]
	Self-employed	Employees	Agricultural day laborers	Self-employed	Employees	Agricultural day laborers	Self-employed	Employees	Agricultural day laborers
Group 1
Tlapanecs	0.47	2.06	1.08	0.43	1.61	1.07	0.25	0.67	0.42
Tzeltal	0.43	2.14	0.71	0.57	1.76	0.71	0.38	0.65	0.40
Tzotzil	0.50	1.73	0.44	0.74	1.64	0.68	0.48	0.63	0.47
Chol	0.61	2.25	0.85	0.65	1.80	0.78	0.44	0.67	0.49
Group 2
Huastecs	0.88	2.73	0.57	0.92	1.92	0.77	0.43	0.70	0.35
Mixes	1.27	2.97	0.80	0.98	2.04	0.73	0.54	0.75	0.51
Mazatecs	1.21	2.37	0.54	1.03	1.69	0.61	0.48	0.71	0.36
Chinantecs	1.62	2.66	1.36	1.12	1.83	0.92	0.52	0.67	0.47
Mixtecs	1.45	2.91	1.44	1.11	2.03	1.30	0.52	0.73	0.52
Nahuas	1.58	2.83	0.86	1.26	2.00	0.86	0.58	0.75	0.50
Totonacs	1.34	2.72	0.74	1.10	1.80	0.76	0.60	0.71	0.50
Group 3
Purépecha	1.76	2.88	0.95	1.58	2.27	1.15	0.55	0.63	0.46
Zapotecs	2.07	3.51	1.38	1.38	2.48	1.03	0.61	0.75	0.57
Mayas	2.21	3.13	1.71	1.55	2.23	1.26	0.71	0.76	0.71
Otomies	2.44	3.11	1.75	1.69	2.04	1.26	0.78	0.84	0.74
Mazahuas	2.28	2.67	1.55	1.83	1.72	1.47	0.73	0.84	0.66

Source: INEGI 2010

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