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The Profile of Export Manufacturing Enterprises (PEME), is a statistic that is carried out in the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) with the objective of generating information on foreign trade flows of manufacturing enterprises seen from the angle of the most representative economic variables, thus contributing to the measurement of international trade in the country and identifying its influence on the level of employment and production.


The generation and dissemination of foreign trade statistics by enterprise characteristics is relatively recent. In 2011, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), established a worldwide effort to generate statistics that reflect the phenomenon of globalization and the interrelation of countries participating in international trade.

For its part, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has promoted among member countries the linkage of business records with business associated to trade flows, in order to obtain statistics with a broader perspective on the international trade and the characteristics of the enterprises that carry it out.

In this regard, significant efforts have been made by the statistical offices of various countries with the purpose of providing more information about their international trade, highlighting the results of the effective linkage in Italy between their foreign trade records and their business records.

The UNSD in the version of the International Merchandise Trade Statistics Manual. Concepts and Definitions 2010, urges countries to make efforts to link business records with those corresponding to international trade.

In this context, in response to the effects of global production manifested in the fragmentation of the production processes of goods and services, in which various enterprises located in different countries participate, since 2013 the INEGI has measured the characteristics of the enterprises that participate in the foreign trade of merchandise, linking the information of the Administrative Records of Foreign Trade with the Economic Censuses, the Annual and Monthly Surveys of the Manufacturing Industry and the Statistics of the Manufacturing Industry, Maquila and Export Services (IMMEX), which has recently been strengthened with the use of the Statistical Business Register of Mexico (RENEM).

Additionally, the United Nations (UN) encourages National Statistical Offices to incorporate the gender perspective in statistics, in order to meet the demand for data and indicators for the development of policies and programs aimed at reducing the disadvantages faced by women.

Gender statistics are disaggregated by sex, an individual-level characteristic commonly recorded in economic censuses, surveys and administrative records, not by gender, a social concept relevant at the level of a population group.

The word sex refers to the biological differences between women and men. Biological differences are fixed and immutable and do not vary between cultures or over time. Gender, on the other hand, refers to the socially constructed differences in the attributes and opportunities associated with being a man or a woman and to the social interactions between women and men. Gender determines what is expected, allowed and valued of a woman or a man in a given context.

When data on demographic, social or economic characteristics are collected, it is the female or male sex that is recorded, not the gender. However, data disaggregated by sex, when analyzed, have the ability to reveal differences in the lives of men and women, which are the result of gender roles and expectations1.

In this sense, starting in 2022, the PEME includes the theme of employment in manufacturing importing and exporting enterprises, distinguishing the sex of the employed personnel. The series begins in 2018, these data show the participation of women and men in the production of manufactured goods in international merchandise trade.

In relation to this theme, there are projects promoted by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development for the development of capacities of some countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, among others, with the aim of supporting the design, execution and evaluation of trade policies that consider the sex of the employed personnel.


To offer information regarding the characteristics of manufacturing enterprises that carry out exports and imports, thus contributing to the analysis of the effects of international trade of merchandise on production and employment in our country.

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Observation unit
The observation unit is the enterprise defined as the organization, owned by a single legal entity, which carries out one or more economic activities, with autonomy when making marketing, financing and investment decisions, as it has the authority and responsibility to distribute resources according to a plan or strategy for the production of goods and services, being able to be located or operate in one or more addresses sharing the same company name.

The enterprises made up of the establishments are classified as follows:

Single-establishment enterprises: Those with only one establishment.
Multi-establishment enterprises: Enterprises made up of more than one establishment.

It is important to mention that the assignment of the economic activity of the enterprises is made considering both the products and services developed by the establishment and their production processes. The economic units that are considered in the PEME are those that are exclusively dedicated to the production of manufactured goods and at least one of the establishments that comprise it has their data collected within the National Economic Surveys and/or in the Statistics of the Program of Manufacturing Industry, Maquila and Export Services (IMMEX) corresponding to the manufacturing sector, which makes it possible to monitor production and personnel employed in non-census periods, and which directly register foreign trade operations of goods before the customs authority. It is important to highlight that there are economic units that make products for the foreign market, but also for the domestic market.


Starting in 2018, information on employed personnel and its disaggregation by sex is included. In accordance with the Economic Information Update Cycle generated by the INEGI and other internal guidelines, the data for the period from 2018 to 2021 of the PEME were updated, derived from the following changes: update of the monthly and annual Surveys of the manufacturing industry, whose base is now the year 2018 and its design reaches a coverage of 91% of the total income of the sector; update of expansion factors for production estimates based on information from the Economic Census 2019; adjustment of information from the International Merchandise Trade Statistics of Mexico; and adaptation of the method for estimating employed personnel.

  • Exports
  • Imports

 

  • Sector and subsector of economic activity NAICS
  • Geographical areas and selected countries
  • Value of exports and imports
  • Employed personnel according to sex

  • Number of enterprises
  • Value of exports and imports

The size of the enterprise is obtained from the employed personnel, following criteria similar to those used by the Ministry of Economy:

  • Micro from 1 to 10
  • Small from 11 to 50
  • Medium from 51 to 250
  • Large from 251 to 500
  • Macro enterprises more than 500

Likewise, the North American Industry Classification System is implemented to identify the sector and subsector of economic activity and the catalog of selected geographical areas and countries.

At the international level, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has promoted the generation of information that makes it possible to measure the effects of globalization on national economies. Additionally, the Law of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information indicates that the INEGI, in its capacity as the central coordinating unit of the System, has as one of its functions the adaptation of statistical procedures to international standards for comparison purposes, therefore, when generating the statistical linkage with customs records, recommendations from the following manuals have been considered:
  1. Manual of International merchandise trade statistics. Concepts and definitions, 2010. Organization of the United Nations (UN). In which countries are encouraged to integrate the foreign trade register with the enterprises register.
  2. International merchandise trade statistics. Compiler Manual. Organization of the United Nations (UN). Where more specific lines are presented to carry out the statistical linkage and examples that they carry out of the application of some statistical offices in different countries
  3. Guidelines on the use of statistical business registers for business demography and entrepreneurship statistics. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The use of the business statistical registers as the backbone of linking exercises stands out.
  4. Accounting for Global Value Chains: GVC Satellite Accounts and Integrated Business Statistics. United Nations Organization (UN). It points out the usefulness of statistical linkage to understand the nature of global value chains.
  5. Integrating a Gender Perspective into Statistics (UN). It aims to provide the information necessary to achieve broad coverage of gender-related issues within data production activities, incorporate a gender perspective in the design of surveys or censuses, improve data analysis and presentation for better understanding.
The INEGI also implementes the Model for the Statistical and Geographical Process (MPEG), based on the Generic Statistical Business Process Model, developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), which describes and defines the process to produce information applicable to the context of official statistics, which provides a standard framework and harmonized terminology, through the Technical Standard for the Process of Statistical and Geographical Information Production, published within the framework of the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information.

It is important to note that each statistical program used as a source of information for calculating the PEME implements recommendations from international and national bodies related to its field of study, so the user is suggested to consult the methodological documentation for each product if they require further details in this regard.

Annual information from 2007-2022

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Considerations:

In accordance with the Economic Information Update Cycle generated by the INEGI and other internal guidelines, the data for the period from 2018 to 2021 of the PEME were updated, derived from the following changes: update of the monthly and annual Surveys of the manufacturing industry, whose base is now the year 2018 and its design reaches a coverage of 91% of the total income of the sector; update of expansion factors for production estimates based on information from the Economic Census 2019; adjustment of information from the International Merchandise Trade Statistics of Mexico; and adaptation of the method of estimating employed personnel.

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