Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment (PVA) is a district level household survey to understand vulnerability of households to environmental and socioeconomic changes with focus on mountain specificity as well as their coping strategies and adaptive capacity. Under the Adaptation to Change program, the Himalaya Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP) initiative have conducted the survey among 2647 households across 7 districts in states of Assam and Arunanchal Pradesh in the Eastern Brahmaputra sub-basin in India. The households were selected following a probability based multi-stage cluster sampling approach.