This guide represents a milestone in the efforts of the United Nations to monitor the  Millennium Development Goals adopted by the UN member states in the year 2000. These goals address essential dimensions of poverty and their effects on people’s lives. They constitute, in themselves, a commitment by the world’s leaders to the world’s poor, addressing the most pressing issues related to poverty such as health, gender equality, education and environmental sustainability. The guide contains suggestion for questions to be asked in a household survey, operational definitions, descriptions of the indicators, key dimensions, data collection etc.