To implement their poverty reduction and development programmes/policies, Ha Noi and Hochiminh City have made considerable efforts and initiatives to be able to identify poor households, including migrant households. The Ha Noi Department of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs has conducted many “reviews” of the list of poor households among registered households1 (KT1 and KT2) according to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs's guidelines and the city's poverty lines. Hochiminh city has started its efforts to graps information of both registered residents and un-registered migrants (KT3). However, so far, there has been no official procedure to collect information of seasonal migrants or un-registered short-term and long-term migrants (KT4). In order to fill the above data gap for an effective poverty monitoring and evaluation, the project “Support to in-depth assessment on urban poverty in Ha Noi and Hochiminh city” is formed, in which the Urban Poverty Survey (UPS-09) is one of the key activities. Noticeably, this survey is the unique and only data source on poverty and livelihood of migrants in the two cities.

For further details, see the data files and questionnaires for the survey