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Participatory poverty monitoring in rural communities in Viet Nam
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4. Calculate head count index (H) according to the dimensions (K).
5. Analyse variations for each poverty dimension between 2007 and 2011
combining data collected from questionnaires and qualitative information
collected from fieldwork.
TABLE 2.2. Poverty dimensions and specific criteria used in this report
Poverty
Specific indicators
dimensions
1. Income Households listed as “poor” according to Government
income poverty line in the 2006-2010 period in rural
areas (average income is less than VND 200,000/person/
month)
2. Assets Households living in temporary houses, or
Households with no motorbikes and cattle
3. Living conditions Households not using electricity as main lighting source,
or
Households using water from ponds, lakes, rivers, streams
as main domestic water sources, or
Households with no latrines or temporary latrines
4. Children’s
Households with children aged 6 to15 not going to school
education
5. Health Households suffering illnesses and hospitalized in the last
12 months and who lack access to satisfactory health
services
6. Food security Households with regular food shortages (one month or
more) in the last 12 months
7. Agricultural
employment
8. Access to
markets
9. Access to
information
10. Risk
management
Households whose only source of employment is farming
(no non-agricultural livelihood sources)
Households selling no products in the last 12 months, or
Households buying no agricultural materials in the last 12
months
Households with no TV sets and no telephone
Households facing risks that greatly affect their lives in the
last 12 months
Note:
• Poverty indicators and the “cut-off point” for each indicator is based on the results of group
discussions with local residents and officials in ten surveyed communes.
• Due to the data limitation of household questionnaires in the 2007-2011 period in ten surveyed
communes, illustrative data on multi-dimensional poverty used in this report do not cover important
poverty dimensions and indicators (such as malnourished children, healthcare services are not
affordable, social relations, gender equality, participation and empowerment...), nor present “quality”
aspects of poverty criteria (such as: education quality, quality of assets, livelihood quality ...).
• Data from the results of survey of repeated random sample of 600 selected households in 20
villages in ten surveyed communes in 2007 and in 2011. As for the proportion of “poor households”
taken from the statistics of 2007 and 2010 (because in 2011 the Government revised the poverty
line, thus unable to compare it with 2007).
• Data from the questionnaires filled by 600 households are only used for illustration (the selection
of sample of households in the village is on a random basis, but the selection of sample of villages
and commune is purposeful