42.6 pct of Vietnamese internal migrants face accommodation difficulty

Some 42.6 percent of Vietnamese internal migrants faced accommodation difficulty, Vietnam's General Statistics Office (GSO) said on Friday.

The figure was released at a conference to publish findings of a survey on Vietnam's national internal migration in 2015, co-held by GSO and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in capital Hanoi on Friday.

According to the survey, among difficulties encountered by migrants, accommodation difficulty is most mentioned. Internal migrants in Vietnam usually seek help from their families, relatives and friends. Few of them have been assisted by destination authorities, said GSO.

According to GSO, Vietnam has carried out two national internal migration surveys so far, with the first one in 2004. The 2015 survey was implemented in 20 localities nationwide, representing Vietnam's six socio-economic regions and two biggest cities of capital Hanoi and southern Ho Chi Minh City.

The survey said Vietnam has been experiencing strong migration process over the past three decades.

The 2015 survey showed that among migrants aged 15 to 59, some 52.4 percent were female and 47.6 percent were male, reaffirming the "feminization of migration" as mentioned in the 2004 survey.

Young migrants whose age range from 15 to 39 account for 84 percent of total migrants, much higher than that of 79 percent in 2004 survey.

Meanwhile, the southeastern region ranked first across Vietnam as the place with the highest rate of migrants with 87.8 percent, followed by Red River Delta with 81 percent. Endit