On February 9th, 2023, in Hanoi, the General Statistics Office (GSO) had a meeting with the World Bank (WB) on providing and signing an agreement on licensing the use of micro data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey and the Vietnam Labor Force Survey 2022. This Data License Agreement was established between GSO and WB, in which GSO is the Data Provider and WB is the Data Recipient and User.

The type of database provided is a micro database. The datasets include: Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2022 (VHLSS) and Vietnam Labor Force Survey 2022 (LFS). In which, VHLSS and LFS are representative sample surveys at the provincial level, implemented to collect information nationwide to synthesize the main statistical indicators on living standards of households and labor, employment, unemployment, income of laborers in working age.

The data fields (variables) are shared based on the actual information needs of the data-sharing party and ensure compliance with the current law. Related documents include: Questionnaire, Survey plan, Handbook of professional guidance. Data sharing is done in STATA, SPSS files. With the requirement that the data user does not share with third parties, only use for internal purposes of WB.